Wednesday 29 June 2022 01:36 AM Keir Starmer disowns Jeremy Corbyn manifesto and admits he's 'starting from ... trends now
Wednesday 29 June 2022 01:36 AM Keir Starmer disowns Jeremy Corbyn manifesto and admits he's 'starting from ... trends now
Keir Starmer disowns Jeremy Corbyn manifesto he used to praise... and admits he's 'starting from scratch' Keir Starmer disowned Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto and is ‘starting from scratch’ The move appeared to contradict his earlier support for Mr Corbyn’s policies Sir Keir promised during the 2020 Labour leadership election to abolish tuition fees, but yesterday he suggested he might break the pledge
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Keir Starmer disowned Jeremy Corbyn’s manifesto for the last election yesterday and said he was ‘starting from scratch’ on policy.
It risked infuriating Labour Left-wingers – and appeared to contradict his earlier support for Mr Corbyn’s policies.
When Sir Keir was running for the Labour leadership, he described the 2017 manifesto as Labour’s ‘foundational document’ and praised its ‘radicalism’.
But speaking at an event organised by New Statesman magazine yesterday, he said: ‘What we’ve done with the last manifesto is put it to one side.
‘We’re starting from scratch. The slate is
