Politics News: Starmer promises budget for ‘working people’ but warns road ‘long and difficult’

Sir Keir Starmer will give a speech on Wednesday to prepare the nation for the Budget.

With tax increases expected, the Prime Minister is clearly presenting this as a difficult development, but one that will benefit people in the future.

He says: “This is a snapshot of the Britain we are building this week and beyond.

“Our economy has stabilized, our foundations have been strengthened, and our hope for the future has been restored.

“Another step on the long, difficult but decisive path to putting Britain back at the service of working people.”

He adds that “change has to be felt.”

“But every decision we’ve made, every decision we’ll make in the future, will be made with workers in mind,” he says.

Who are the “workers”?

The definition of what a working person is has been hotly debated ever since Sir Keir and his party began using it.

This time, he says it’s “people who have worked harder and harder for years just to stand still, people who are doing the right things, maybe still finding a little money to put aside, paying for their existence, even for account of the cost of life crisis.”

These are also “people stuck on the NHS waiting list, whose town center is blighted by anti-social behaviour, who can’t afford to buy a place to call home or can’t afford the house they have because mortgages.” bomb”.