UK Politics
General Discussion for politics in the UK.
Please don't post to both !uk_politics@feddit.uk and !unitedkingdom@feddit.uk .
Pick the most appropriate, and put it there.
Posts should be related to UK-centric politics, and should be either a link to a reputable news source for news, or a text post on this community.
Opinion pieces are also allowed, provided they are not misleading/misrepresented/drivel, and have proper sources.
If you think "reputable news source" needs some definition, by all means start a meta thread. (These things should be publicly discussed)
Posts should be manually submitted, not by bot. Link titles should not be editorialised.
Disappointing comments will generally be left to fester in ratio, outright horrible comments will be removed.
Message the mods if you feel something really should be removed, or if a user seems to have a pattern of awful comments.
!ukpolitics@lemm.ee appears to have vanished! We can still see cached content from this link, but goodbye I guess! :'(
view the rest of the comments
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Sir Keir Starmer is to warn that the UK will face "huge constraints" on public spending if his party win the next General Election.
In a speech to economists and think-tanks later on Monday, Sir Keir will say economic growth "will have to become Labour's obsession if we are to turn around the economy".
However, a Conservative spokesman said Labour's policy "presents a major risk" to the British economy at a time when the cost of borrowing is "so high".
Richard Holden, the Conservative party chairman, said: "The largest 'constraint' to growing the economy would be Labour's ยฃ28bn a year borrowing plan - which independent economists warn would see inflation, interest rates and people's taxes rise".
He will also declare Labour would secure "a new deal to make work pay with increased mental health support, fully-funded plan to cut NHS waiting lists, an end to zero hour contracts, no more fire and rehire, and a real living wage".
Most recent official figures show the economy failed to grow between July and September, after a succession of interest rate rises that have increased borrowing costs.
The original article contains 698 words, the summary contains 184 words. Saved 74%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!