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The British Social Democrats are heading for a clear election victory. Until now, little was known about what the party stands for. Now the program is available.
Manchester – With promises of change and prosperity, the Labour Party is entering the early UK election. The Social Democrats of party leader Keir Starmer are considered the clear favorites in the vote on July 4th and are likely According to all surveys take over the government. At the presentation of the election manifesto on Thursday (13 June) in Manchester, Starmer stressed that Labour wanted to end the “conservative chaos” of the past 14 years.
Labour leader Starmer is interrupted during his speech by climate activist
The conservative Tories have had four prime ministers in office since the Brexit negotiations began in 2016. The symbol of this turbulent phase in 2022 was a head of lettuce, which marked the end of the term of office of Liz Truss She was followed by Rishi Sunak, who is still in power but hopelessly unpopular with the population. Even the Brexiteers have seen their ratings plummet since Sunak took office, and they are loudly Economist only 35 percent for the Tories – that is only three points more than the Social Democrats can score in this group.
“Today we can lay a new foundation of stability and on that foundation we can begin to rebuild Britain,” Starmer declared – and was immediately interrupted by a climate activist. She accused Labour of merely continuing the climate policy of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s Conservatives. “We need better. climate can’t wait,” she shouted before being escorted out of the hall by security guards.
New Labour election manifesto in Great Britain: education, taxes, no deportations
With the election manifesto, Labour is presenting the party’s plans in detail for the first time. Starmer said the election manifesto would ensure prosperity and was a plan to change Britain. Labour wants to end tax breaks for private schools and close tax loopholes for wealthy foreigners. This will raise seven billion pounds (8.3 billion euros) to employ 6,500 new teachers.
Labour wants to use revenue from a higher excess profit tax for energy companies to finance a new state-owned company for clean energy. The company tax is to be capped at the current rate of 25 percent. No further tax increases are planned, Starmer assured, contradicting accusations from the Conservatives.
Finally, the voting age is to be lowered from 18 to 16. Labour does not want to implement the Tory government’s controversial plan to deport irregularly entered migrants to Rwanda regardless of their origin. (ah with dpa)
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