YET again Sir Keir Starmer leads the way in continuing to fulfil the manifesto commitments that he was elected upon.
The news that there will now be 13,000 more police is most welcome in a Britain left broken by Tory austerity over 14 years.
The new proposals to get Britain working is welcome too.
When I worked on a Conservative campaign team when David Cameron was Tory leader in 2010 his central pledge was to invest in British workers yet after Brexit the Conservative Party handed out visa after visa to foreign nationals so as to not just undermine the central pledge but to break it completely whilst at the same time claiming to be tough on immigration despite having the most open border policies in decades.
And then we come to the health service. I remember David Cameron saying it was safe in Tory hands. Well it was so safe that waiting lists rocketed, the health secretary would not even negotiate with doctors, and, when there was recently legislation on changes in parliament recently, there was barely a Tory in sight.
Unlike the Tories who ran down Britain, Sir Keir Starmer is making our country respected on the world stage again and on the home front, Sir Keir Starmer is making Britain great again.
Geoffrey Brooking,
Saxley Court,
Havant,
Hampshire
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I’d have been better off living off the state
STARTING my working life in 1965 my father Leonard offered these words of wisdom, and, as it turned out, nothing could be truer than what he said: “During your working life you’ll always earn too much to get anything for nothing but only earn enough to manage on” and how true his words turned out.
Working hard all my life, paying into the system, putting a bit to one side for a rainy day.
Now penalised at every turn; I’d have been better off living off the state as so many of my contemporaries have done.
D M Deamer,
Penleys Grove Street,
Monkgate,
York
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Right to hold different views on the pitch
PREMIER League football in its support of the LGBTQ cause forget one salient fact, players are paid to display their skills with a ball, not to be public puppets for a campaign for which they have the right to hold alternative views.
Peter Rickaby,
West Park,
Selby
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