Shadow cabinet hopeful darrenpjones told theipaper: “You have to be very clear from the start [of a Labour government] that you’re not going to be able to fix the structural problems in a first term” 🔴 Exclusive from DavidParsley50
Asked how Labour would handle an inheritance of slow economic growth, high NHS waiting lists, rising mortgage costs, and worsening public services should Mr Starmer make it into No 10, Mr Jones, said: “It’s going to be bloody difficult.”
“You have to be very clear from the start [of a Labour government] that you’re not going to be able to fix the structural problems in a first term,” he added.“But I think we should be up front in that it’s going to take multiple terms to do that. It can be turned around, but it’s not going to be easy.”
Sir Keir Starmer has said that after 13 years of Conservative rule, it would take time to ‘fix the fundamentals’ of the UK Labour has been criticised for not offering policies to solve the issue Mr Jones identifies, but he claimed the manifesto will begin to take shape now the party has completed its National Policy Forum, which took place in Nottingham over the weekend.
“Even policies we would like to announce, we can’t because the economic situation we will inherit will be really hard,” said Mr Jones, who is“Technically, we can’t announce our manifesto policies until we’ve held the National Policy Forum as it’s part of our constitutional process.In May, Mr Starmer said that he had his sights set on “a decade of national renewal” and that after 13 years of Conservative rule it would take time to “fix the fundamentals” of the UK.
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