Sir Keir Starmer has said on Tuesday afternoon that he will deliver the mandate that he “was given” and he will “never give up” on helping people.
Starmer said he wants “have the opportunity to say” that whatever is happening globally “what matters most is the cost of living, actually paying the bills, getting through, improving living standards, public services that work”.
The Prime Minister added, “These are the things that matter hugely for people.
There are some people in recent days who say the Labour government should have a different fight, a fight with itself, instead of a fight for the millions of people who need us to fight for them.
He vowed, “I say to them, I will never walk away from the mandate I was given to change this country.
I will never walk away from the people that I’m charged with fighting for, and I will never walk away from the country that I love.
Taking aim at the Reform UK party Starmer said, “I say to them, I will never walk away from the mandate I was given to change this country.
“I will never walk away from the people that I’m charged with fighting for, and I will never walk away from the country that I love.”
The mayor of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham has called for “stability” within the Labour Party and said he fully supports the Prime Minister.
Sky News reported, at lunchtime Burnham said, “[To bring about change] requires stability, and I make my own call for that today across the Labour Party.
“Of course, stability comes from greater unity, and that would be helped by a more inclusive way of running the party.
“But recent events make that now feel possible. And from greater stability and unity – today, our focus should be on the by-election in Manchester.”
He added, “It is possible for Britain to free itself from the housing crisis and the cost of living crisis within a decade, but it will take a new era of more energetic activists and interventionist government, and a new culture in Whitehall and Westminster.
“I also believe we must first create a new politics.”
Burnham continued, “I believe this government has, in fact, drawn a line and taken Britain into this new political era and shown the different thinking required to relieve unsung Britain from the cost pressures it faces.
