Sir Keir Starmer has admitted he hates the "futility of Opposition" but vowed to restore faith in politics.
Accusing the Conservatives of having driven the country into "rocks of decline", the Labour leader promised a new purpose if he were to make it into government. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
Accusing the Conservatives of having driven the country into "rocks of decline", the Labour leader promised a new purpose if he were to make it into government. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Four years I've been working for this. Four years working for the chance to tilt this country
00:08 firmly and decisively back towards the interests of working people. It's been a long hard slog
00:14 and I won't lie, I've hated the futility of opposition, the powerlessness and yes,
00:24 the pain that comes from watching the Tories drive the country I love into the rocks of decline.
00:30 Trust in politics is now so low, so degraded that nobody believes you can make a difference anymore.
00:38 Also that after the sex scandals, the expenses scandals, the waste scandals,
00:45 the contracts for friends, even in a crisis like the pandemic, some people have looked at us and
00:51 concluded we're all just in it for ourselves. I promise a new purpose to drag politics in this
00:59 country back to service, tilt our economy back towards the interests of working people,
01:05 reward their efforts fairly once again. I promise a new plan with new priorities,
01:12 five national missions that will sweep away the era of Tory division. Don't listen to the
01:18 siren voices that say we can't change Britain. We can and we will. Don't listen when they say
01:26 we're all the same. We're not and we never will be. And don't listen when they say
01:32 politics makes no difference, because it does.