Keir Starmer's Six Milestones (Don't Call it a Relaunch)
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🗓️ 5 December 2024
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Today, the prime minister set out his ‘Plan for Change’ with six milestones focused on the economy, the NHS, climate, preschool education, policing and housebuilding.
Adam and Henry unpick what Keir Starmer said and ask whether these targets could become a challenge in the future.
And, the Secretary of State for Business and Trade Jonathan Reynolds MP speaks to Adam about how these milestones will work in practice.
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| 0:00.0 | BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, podcasts. |
| 0:04.9 | Hello, this episode of Newscast is coming to you from Westminster |
| 0:07.6 | because it's another big political day because Kirstarmer, the Prime Minister, |
| 0:11.6 | has been doing a speech where he's been setting out his six milestones, |
| 0:16.2 | not to be confused with his five missions or his three priorities. What he's trying to do here and what he was |
| 0:23.4 | trying to do in this speech that he gave at Pinewood Studios is just give some kind of measurable |
| 0:28.3 | targets and goals by which we can all judge the government in a couple of years' time. Now, |
| 0:34.5 | there are six milestones for the five missions and I think I've been living with them |
| 0:39.5 | for enough hours now to be able to say them off the top of my head. So wish me luck. On the economy, |
| 0:45.3 | it is to have an increase in real household disposable income and GDP gross domestic product |
| 0:53.5 | per person in all areas of the UK and also |
| 0:57.9 | a recommitment to build 1.5 million new homes by the end of this Parliament, so over five years. |
| 1:04.5 | On crime, it's to recruit 13,000 new police officers and community support officers and specials so that every neighbourhood |
| 1:12.7 | has their own named police officer looking after it. On education, it's to have 75% of five-year-olds |
| 1:20.9 | up to the required standard so that they're starting school in really good form when it comes |
| 1:27.1 | to literacy and things like that. And on the |
| 1:29.9 | NHS, it's to have 92% of people having their elective care without having to wait more than |
| 1:35.3 | 18 weeks for it. And on clean power, it's to have a 95% of electricity coming from renewable sources, |
| 1:43.1 | no carbon by 2030, which is slightly different |
| 1:46.6 | than what the Labour Party said in their manifesto at the election. So those are the six |
| 1:51.3 | yardsticks by which we will all have to measure the success of Secure Stormer as Prime |
| 1:56.9 | Minister and his government. We will be discussing what those targets mean, what's been going on behind the scenes that |
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