Chris Philp says the prime minister’s ‘plan for change’ speech is a “desperate relaunch in an attempt to rescue the fortunes of a failing government”. The shadow home secretary accuses the government of breaking election promises and imposing “the biggest tax increases in recent history”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00Well, it's quite clearly a desperate reset,
00:02a desperate relaunch in an attempt
00:04to rescue the fortunes of a failing government.
00:07Keir Starmer's approval ratings have plummeted to minus 32%.
00:11And that's not surprising.
00:12They've broken all their election promises.
00:14It turns out they lied during the election campaign
00:16by saying they weren't going to increase taxes.
00:18And yet they've imposed the biggest tax
00:20increases in recent history, which will hit families.
00:24They'll hit working people.
00:25They'll hit businesses.
00:27It'll result in job losses.
00:29And they stripped winter fuel payments
00:31from almost every single pensioner,
00:33including pensioners in poverty.
00:34All the while, Keir Starmer has been loading up
00:37on personal freebies from Lord Alley
00:39and handing out massive pay rises to his union bosses.
00:43So it's no surprise the public have got sick of them already.
00:46And what we're seeing today is a desperate relaunch
00:49in an attempt to turn around their flagging fortunes.
00:52We left office with inflation down at 2%.
00:55His claims about a black hole have been completely debunked
00:58by the Office for Budget Responsibility.
01:01We had record police numbers upon leaving office.
01:04What this is designed to fix are his terrible poll ratings,
01:07which have collapsed to minus 32%.