Labour promise to become ‘the party of wealth creation and make growth its top priority’ – as Keir Starmer is set to unveil party’s election manifesto
Work will become the party of wealth creation and make growth the top priority, sir Keir Starmer will promise today.
The Labor leader will reveal his party’s election The manifesto makes economic stability the first of six ‘first steps’ for the government and has promised there will be no ‘tax surprises’.
Sir Keir is expected to say: ‘Creating wealth is our number one priority. Growth is our core business – the goal and means of national renewal. ‘The mandate we seek in these elections is for economic growth. This changed PvdA has a growth plan. We are pro-business and pro-workers, the party of wealth creation.’
Sir Keir will launch the manifesto in Manchester today. It is expected to include a pledge to cap corporate tax at the current rate of 25 percent to give companies long-term certainty. This is the latest in a series of promises not to raise taxes.
Keir Starmer arrives for the Sky News election event in Grimsby on June 12
Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves speaks at a press conference in central London, responding to the launch of the Conservative Party manifesto
Labor has already ruled out increasing income tax, national insurance or national insurance rates VATand said the manifesto will not include tax increases that have not yet been announced.
These increases will impose a VAT on private school fees, eliminate non-domestic tax status and close loopholes in the windfall tax on oil and gas companies.
The party’s first steps also include a pledge to cut NHS waiting lists by 40,000 new appointments a week, setting up a Border Security Command, setting up GB Energy, cracking down on anti-social behavior and hiring 6,500 teachers. The manifesto is expected to promise to reform planning rules and build 1.5 million new homes.
There will be measures to review workers’ rights and a promise to devolve decision-making to Westminster.
On foreign policy, Labor has said it will back Ukraine against Russia and support the recognition of a Palestinian state as part of a Middle East peace process.
The party has also pledged to aim to spend 2.5 percent of GDP on defense.
