Keir Starmer must 'win over the trust of the public' ahead of election, Rowley says

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Sir Keir Starmer's speech to the Welsh Labour Conference has been criticised by commentator Charlie Rowley, as he told GB News that it "lacked substance".Delivering his scathing verdict on the latest address from the Prime Minister, Rowley told the People's Channel that the current "plan for change" from Welsh voters is "to vote Labour out".FULL STORY HERE.

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00:00Quite a brief speech there from Keir Starmer, focusing on a number of things, Labour being

00:06the party of the working class, but also quite a stinging attack on Nigel Farage.

00:09It was, and again we're seeing the Prime Minister talk about Nigel Farage and giving him airtime

00:15and more coverage than I think some Labour people would want to see.

00:20So again, a question about Keir Starmer's political acumen there.

00:24He started off by saying that Wales had been painted red at the last general election,

00:29and I think he's absolutely right, red with anger, I should imagine, by a lot of people

00:33who've had their winter fuel payment cut, that have seen their benefit, disability benefit

00:38maybe, go up in smoke, that's seen their energy bills potentially go up.

00:44He talked about the 10-month wage increase, something that I think most people would acknowledge

00:48he inherited, I should imagine, rather than has any impact on, and talking about their

00:53industrial strategy that they launched earlier this week, which I must have missed, as if

00:57it was some big fanfare.

00:58So not much in it, in terms of substance, but as you say, an attack on Farage, and what

01:04could be a coalition, as he sees it, in the Welsh elections next year?

01:08Now, I am the last person to attack politicians for the sake of it, and Starmer has a very

01:13difficult job.

01:14He's inherited a very different economic situation.

01:17But I think his story tells us.

01:18And of course, the last government made an enormous amount of failures.

01:21You and I both know that.

01:22But nevertheless, this speech seems to almost completely ignore or pretend what is actually

01:28happening in the real world.

01:29It's been a very difficult week for the government, very difficult situation economically, internationally

01:35as well.

01:36And the speech, the tone of the speech was, everything's fine and it's going to get better.

01:41I think that's absolutely right.

01:42And what Labour I don't think have just been able to grasp is why they've been elected.

01:46So he, you know, the Prime Minister talked very openly about a plan for change.

01:50I think the only plan for change is probably to vote them out by the German public at the

01:54next time round.

01:55But, you know, talking as if, you know, that they've won this huge majority, as if there

01:59was this huge groundswell and love for Labour, when it wasn't.

02:03You're absolutely right.

02:03There were so many mistakes in the past.

02:05The public wanted to give the Tories a kicking and they got an absolute thrashing at

02:08the election.

02:09So understanding that you come into government on the back of just, you know, someone else wasn't

02:13particularly very popular, you've got to then win over the trust of the public.

02:16And they haven't done that because they were announcing things that weren't in their

02:19manifesto, like cutting the winter fuel and missing sort of key, you know, national stories

02:25like, you know, the grooming gang scandal, you know, not having a national inquiry when

02:28it was blindingly obvious to most of us, regardless of your politics, that that needed to happen.

02:33And now you're hearing things about, obviously, the economy, you know, increase in taxes,

02:37national insurance contributions when they said they weren't going to do it.

02:39So there's lots of things that they've done that they said they weren't going to do.

02:42And I think they're, you know, not as popular as they think that they might be.

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