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Keir Starmer delivers speech at the UN as Labour members expose rift in party over winter fuel payment cuts
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Sir Keir Starmer has delivered his first speech as prime minister to world leaders at the United Nations in the US after leaving the Labour Party conference.
He used his address to the UN General Assembly to promise that his government will deliver “global leadership” as the Middle East teeters on the brink of all-out conflict and the bloody war in Ukraine grinds on.
On a tough week after calling for the return of “sausages” in Gaza during a conference gaffe, Sir Keir has been defeated in a vote to reverse the cut to the winter fuel payments.
The non-binding motion, named An Economy for the Future and tabled by Sharon Graham of the Unite union and the Communication Workers Union (CWU), was passed by a show of hands in a rowdy hall at the Labour Party annual conference.
In a show of defiance, Unite’s general secretary Sharon Graham called Labour members to rebel against the policy as she shouted: “This is not what people voted for.”
The motion called for means testing of the winter fuel allowance to be scrapped and for an end to fiscal rules which prevent borrowing to invest, as well as the introduction of a wealth tax.e
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The Labour conference is now listening to Bridget Phillipson, who is now on her feet delivering her keynote speech at the main stage.
The education secretary has said that Labour sees education as “so much more than classroom learning”.
She added: “It is about children, and it is about their opportunities. Opportunity not just for some of our children, but for all of our children.
“A vision of education centred not simply on schools or nurseries, knowledge or skills, university or college, but on our young people and their chance to achieve and thrive, to succeed and flourish.”
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Pictured: Unite Union members campaign defending the winter fuel payment
The Tories ‘betrayed’ NHS by leaving it ‘totally unprepared for tomorrow’, says Streeting
Wes Streeting has accused the previous Conservative administration of having betrayed the NHS by leaving it “totally unprepared for tomorrow”, Millie Cooke reports from the Labour conference.
The health secretary told the Labour Party conference: “Every day in this job, I see the scale of the challenge but I also see something else – the potential of our NHS.”
The Tories’ biggest betrayal wasn’t that they left the NHS unable to care for us today, it’s that they left it totally unprepared for tomorrow.
“Advances in genomics, data mean the health care of the future would be more predictive, more preventative and more personalised than ever before.”
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