Starmer warns of the United Kingdom in “A FORK In The Road” between renewal and retreat

UK Prime Minister Kiir Starmer warned on Tuesday that Britain was standing “on a thorn on the road” between renewal and decline amid the increasing political divisions in the country.

“We can all see our country face a special choice or option. Britain stands on a thorn on the road. We can choose decency or we can choose division, renewal or retreat,” Starmer told Liverpool’s annual conference.

Starmer’s main speech comes in a moment of national tension and grumbling from discontent within the Labor Party, where it fell behind the right -wing uniform in Nigel Faraj, UK reform, In the polls.

Before the annual conference of this year, Starmer told the party members that the Labor Party faced the “battle of our life” against UK reform, which increased popularity on the back of an anti -immigration statement.

This message has been exposed to sections of the public that the government did not do enough to stop illegal immigration to the United Kingdom, but it faced a problem for the parties to the left of the center, such as the Labor Party, who are afraid to appear from public feelings while cautiously from knee to the right.

He said that Starmer on Tuesday called on the believer to unite about “a common destination for the United Kingdom, and called for a” proud of its values ​​”instead of one, he said,” The loss, against the pill of our history, to the policy of grievance. “

By moving to the economy, which was somewhat suffering to appear in recent months, and it is expected to slow down this year, Starmer said that reform, the creation of wealth and its growth is required, as he called for the removal of the “reckless bureaucracy”.

“We must be clear that our path, and the path of renewal, it is long, difficult, requires decisions that are not free or easy. Decisions that will not be always comfortable for our party,” said Starmer.

It is a great fall from Grace Starmer after his party won 34 % of the votes in the July 2024 elections. The party’s support fell to 21 % while the UK reform is seen by 27 % of the votes, According to the latest pollIn the sense that the UK reformist government will be “almost common if there are elections tomorrow,” Yugov said.

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and pensions were told CNBC on Monday that the Labor Party had to face the threat posed by UK reform.

“I was a campaign coordinator in the last elections and I said within days that we will face different opponents next time. I think it’s really a battle between opportunity and grievance, and I am very happy to stand on the side () of opportunities,” CNBC Ritika Gupta told the conference.

Regardless of external threats, there are internal departments, with quarrels between legislators at work that limits the ability of the ruling party to change politics, with many important courses on spending reforms on social welfare in recent months.

As such, the expected spending cuts were not achieved, and British Chancellor Rachel Reeves is expected to announce in her tax budget in her next budget to fill a proven financial hole It can reach 50 billion pounds ($ 67.2 billion), although estimates vary.

Reeves has repeatedly refused to break the self -imposed financial rules that restrict borrowing and aim to balance the budget and reduce debt by 2029/2030.

In another possible blow to the work leadership, Reeves can be forced to break Work statement In order not to raise taxes on working workers, especially national insurance contributions (which fund social security and pensions), income tax thresholds, or value -added tax.

In the budget last year, companies carry a burden 40 billion pounds from tax increases Since then, the heads of industrial pressured the government to resist another tax raid they say have affected jobs and investment, and in the end growth.

In her speech at the conference on Monday, Reeves hinted that the other tax increase can be on the horizon But she gave little details about the place where the ax might fall, saying: “In the coming months, we will face other tests. With its choices that have become more difficult through the harsh global opposite winds and long -term damage to our economy, which have become more clear.”

The Minister of Foreign Affairs of Business and Trade Peter Kyle told CNBC on Tuesday that “the statement is standing”, but the party “was very clear that these decisions are taken at the budget point,” he told CNBC from Ritika Gupta.