Labour Party conference in Liverpool overshadowed by protest
An upbeat Prime Minister, Keir Starmer, attends the annual UK Labour Party conference to discuss the tough choices which need to be made and the party's direction whilst in power.
Outside the venue protesters stressed that they voted for change and warning they're not giving him an easy ride.
People weren't voting en masse for Labour.
They were voting to get the Tories out because of their austerity and their lacking in many areas.
Protestor 01
The first tough choice they made was to take some money away from some of the poorest people in society, from the pensioners, in making the decision to cut the winter fuel allowance for pensioners.
Protestor 02
The list of complaints is long, from the announcement by Starmer of hard times ahead, to the National Health Service, to stories about gifts to him and his cabinet members from party donors.
And it's particularly shocking at a time when they're cutting benefits for pensioners and refusing to lift children out of poverty … that he's benefiting to the tune of thousands.
Steph Pike, People’s Assembly
There's criticism of foreign policy, too, and they say the new occupant of Number 10 Downing Street cannot use his predecessors’ failures to justify his decisions.
Yes, the previous government made huge cuts and brought this country to its knees, quite frankly, but the Labor Party's job when it got elected was to stop, not only just stop the cuts, but to rebuild the things that the Tories had broken.
We don't buy this stuff about there's not enough money. There's plenty of money.
They could stop arming Ukraine. They could stop arming Israel. They could stop increasing defense spending and tax the rich.
Steph Pike, People’s Assembly
With his popularity rating plummeting, Starmer rules over a Britain that's become the sick man of Europe, with the health system on the brink, millions pushed into poverty and living standards on the decline.
Starmer and his Labour Party have a massive majority, at the moment, and feel very secure, but that may mean very little in five years time and the next general election if they fail to deliver for the people who voted for change.
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