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Keir Starmer Speaks Of “Weariness In The Heart Of A Nation” As He Uses First Prime Ministerial Speech To Attempt To Bridge Political Divides


Keir Starmer has made his first Prime Minister speech outside Downing Street having beaten Rishi Sunak in the general election,

Keir Starmer made an immediate attempt to bridge political divides this afternoon and said there is “weariness in the heart of” the UK that requires fixing as he addressed the masses for the first time as Prime Minister. In what appeared a barbed remark at his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn, Starmer, whose party won a landslide, said Labour will govern “unburdened by doctrine, guided by a determination to serve your interests, to defy those who have written our country off.” Starmer offered an olive branch to now-predecessor Rishi Sunak, paying tribute to his achievement “as the first British Asian Prime Minister of our country and the extra effort that will have required.”

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