Starmer defends Labour plan – but Conservatives say he lacks principles

SIR KEIR STARMER today vowed a new approach on illegal immigration after Tory criticism that he has no plan B after rejecting the Government's Rwanda scheme.

- Jitendra Joshi

The opposition leader used a speech on the fourth anniversary of the 2019 election to position Labour as ready to lead a "decade of national renewal", in contrast to the "psychodrama" engulfing Rishi Sunak's Conservatives over Rwanda.

"We cannot let the Tories take this country down with them, we cannot let them kick the hope out of our future," he told an audience at Silverstone, pointing to a two-term project of reform under Labour.

But Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden accused Sir Keir of "planning to try and block our plans to stop the boats" and of lacking "the principles needed to lead Britain".