Starmer sets out how UK can rise again

KEIR Starmer will today explain how Britain can rise up after Covid, using the creation of the NHS after the Second World War as inspiration.

The Labour leader will tell people they can help build a country “worthy of the sacrifices” made during the pandemic in the same way Labour built the welfare state.

The Labour leader was drawing the battle lines for the next election by accusing Boris Johnson of having “wrong priorities”.

He will say a planned cut to Universal Credit in April should be stopped, which would put an extra £1,000 in the pockets of six million families.

Mr Starmer is also pressing for key workers facing pay freezes, such as teachers, the armed forces and care workers, to get rises instead.

He is expected to say: “A dark winter will give way to a brighter spring. We can build a better future. Just as we did in 1945 when Attlee’s government built the welfare state from the rubble of war.”