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Responding to Sir Keir Starmer’s first speech at Labour conference as Prime Minister, John O’Connell, chief executive of the TaxPayers' Alliance, said:
“Taxpayers will receive little joy from a speech that sounded more like a protracted shopping list for ever more public spending than a platform for genuine change and reform.
“Starmer claims that he is building a Britain that belongs to the people but in reality he tapping up taxpayers to pay for the priorities of backroom bureaucrats, relentless regulators and prying public health lobbyists.
“If the prime minister wants to deliver meaningful change for the British people, he should remember that for many millions, it’s government that is the problem, not the solution.”
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