LONDON – Britain’s Labor Party will introduce a “take back control bill” to deliver on some of its Brexit promises if it wins the next election, Keir Starmer has promised.
The Labor leader said the “return control” slogan devised by the official Vote Leave camp during the 2016 referendum campaign was “really powerful, it was like the Heineken phrase … it got into people’s heads.”
And Starmer, who campaigned to remain in the European Union and once again pushed for a second Brexit referendum, used his first speech of 2023 to promise to “embrace” the Brexiteer message pushed by former Prime Minister Boris Johnson. done to.
Labour’s bill would give more powers to local communities, and follows a recent constitutional report written by former PM Gordon Brown calling for the opposition to transfer power from Westminster and the House of Lords, Britain’s unelected second legislature. The room has been committed to elimination.
A Labor spokesman said the bill would give local governments more power over “skills, employment support, transport, energy, housing, culture, childcare and funding settlements”.
Starmer has promised over the past year that Labor will “make Brexit work” if it wins the next election.
He has ruled out any changes to Brexit or the UK’s post-trade deal with the EU, as well as pledging to pursue similar regulatory changes promised by the government for the financial services industry.
Touching on his previous support for remaining in the EU, Starmer said he was “always making the argument that there is always something very important behind the vote to leave.”
“The control people want is control over their lives and their communities,” he said.
“So we’ll take the message of taking back control, but we’ll turn it from a slogan into a solution.”
Labor enters 2023 with a commanding polling lead over the Conservatives, after 12 months westminster psychodrama and the fall of two prime ministers.
A Conservative spokesman said Starmer’s speech was “another empty relaunch from Keir Starmer – his tenth bid to sell himself as Labor leader without a single solution to address the challenges we face.”
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak launched his campaign yesterday to try and win back voters’ trust as he promised to cut inflation, improve NHS waiting times and crack down on those illegally crossing the English Channel from France in small boats. promised to reduce the number