Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer promises immediate action if elected prime minister, focusing on stabilising and growing the economy, removing planning restrictions, and addressing the small boats issue. He emphasised that these changes could begin "absolutely straight away" and highlighted the importance of earning voter trust and confidence ahead of the election. "We must be laser focused on that from day one," Starmer insisted. Report by Covellm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00There are things that we can do absolutely straight away. The first step that we set out
00:04today was about stabilising the economy and growing our economy. There are things there,
00:09like getting rid of some of the planning restrictions, we can do that absolutely
00:13straight away. The command force that we want to set up to deal with the small boats problem,
00:19that can be done straight away. Even the NHS appointments, which is obviously more complicated,
00:24we're having the discussions now with NHS staff about how we can implement that as quickly
00:29as possible. Now, in answer to your question, I don't anticipate and get ahead of myself. I know
00:36I've got to earn every vote going into that election and earn the trust and confidence
00:41of people to win that election. But I also know that so many people are looking to us
00:47to deliver the change that they need, and we must be laser focused on that from day one.