Starmer: PM squatting in No 10 until general election
Sir Keir Starmer has accused Rishi Sunak of "effectively squatting in Downing Street" after the prime minister suggested a general election would fall in the second half of the year, rather than May as was expected. Report by Alibhaiz. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 We're ready for an election. I think the country's ready for an election.
00:05 Most people desperately want the chance to turn the page on 14 years of decline
00:10 and usher in a decade of national renewal.
00:13 If the Prime Minister is now hinting that it's going to be later in the year,
00:18 then I think the question is, what's he hiding?
00:23 This is a serious issue for the country.
00:24 If he can't name a date, then effectively he's just squatting in Downing Street,
00:31 holding the country back with his dithering and delaying.
00:35 I don't look at the polls, but I do look at by-election results.
00:39 We've won by-elections in the last 12 months across the entirety of the country
00:43 in seats like Mid Bedfordshire, Tory seats, up in Selby in Yorkshire,
00:48 up in Scotland and in Tamworth.
00:50 So, whatever people say, I've been clear, change the party,
00:55 expose the Tories as not fit to govern and put that positive case to the country.