The Tory Party has said on Thursday that Keir Starmer’s “emergency list of priorities” is a sign Labour is feeling “pretty unstable” which comes as the Prime Minister set out a series of “milestones.”
Starmer has pledged to achieve a series of milestones over this Parliament which includes cutting back NHS waiting times, higher living standards and clean power by 2030.
Listing his milestones, Starmer wants to put “more police on the beat” build 1.5 million homes and provide all children with the “best start in life.”
The Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, with shadow Cabinet Office minister Alex Burghart presented the plan to the House of Commons and accused Pat McFadden of seeming to look “rattled.”
McFadden said in a statement on Thursday the Tories had given up on delivering for voters.
He said, “Today, we turn the page on that record, we reject the hopelessness that it fostered, and we set out milestones for each of our missions and the foundations which underpin them.”
Burghart said, “We will all on this side of the House want to congratulate the Government on its most recent reset, there are only a few more resets left before Christmas. The Labour Party may like to try turning it off and, well, maybe just leaving it off.
“But it’s good that they have taken the time to come up with an emergency list of priorities after only 14 years in opposition, five months in power, they finally decided some things they’re going to work towards.
“(Mr McFadden) in his statement was quite punchy about the past, actually unusually punchy for (McFadden).
“One could say that if (Mr McFadden) is rattled, and he is not the rattling type, it is a sign that the Government itself must be feeling pretty unstable at the moment.”
He added, “The missions only mean anything if the Government is honest about what it is doing, about the milestones it is hitting or not hitting, and also why it has downgraded certain other priorities.
“Like, how has it chosen these six issues, over immigration, over GP surgeries, over A&E, over defence, over the £300 energy bill reduction target, over becoming the fastest growing economy in the G7. Why has the Government chosen the priorities it has? The House should be told.”
McFadden told MPs in the Commons, “Let us contrast what we are announcing today with their milestones of failure.
“They had record high waiting lists, the worst Parliament for living standards on record, a surrender on house building, a failure on infrastructure, a £22 billion hole in the public finances.
“Those are the milestones of failure. Those are our choices today.”
