Starmer: Labour must deliver change faster after loss

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Sir Keir Starmer conceded that Labour’s loss by just six votes to Reform UK in the Runcorn and Helsby by-election was a setback and said that the government needed to act “further and faster” in delivering change. The narrow victory for new MP Sarah Pochin saw Reform taking a constituency which Labour won with a majority of almost 14,700 less than 12 months ago. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00Many prime ministers respond to this by saying oppositions always do well in

00:05these sorts of by-elections or it was very close and it was very close all of

00:09that is perfectly true but my response is to say I get it we were elected into

00:16government at the general election last year to deliver change we've started

00:20that work waiting lists are coming down wages are going up interest rates are

00:25down that's all good for working people but the message I take out of these

00:29results is that we need to go further and faster with change people need to see

00:35and feel that change that chimes with what I've been saying for a number of

00:39weeks we're going to double down on that now deliver the change that people need

00:43so that's my response yes it was close but actually let's focus on what really

00:48matters here which is delivering the change that people want even faster and

00:52going even further reform have a very different agenda to this government

00:57reform want to charge to use the NHS that will never happen under a Labour

01:01government we're clear we stand with Ukraine you reform thorn over Putin we're

01:09clear that we want to deliver more rights for working people in their workplace a

01:12reform turn up in Parliament a vote against that every single time they are

01:16big differences so I'm not taking away from the result I know from that that we've

01:22got to go further and faster there's some big fundamental value differences

01:26between a Labour government committed to the NHS free at the point of use and

01:30reform that want to charge for the NHS I'll never agree with that

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