Did Labour win because they told Britons they would be poorer than Poles?
Keir Starmer led Britain’s Labour Party to a landslide election victory, and on Friday became the country’s prime minister. However, did Labour actually win because he told Britons they would be poorer than Poles?
Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer holds a news conference following his first cabinet meeting, at Downing Street in London, Britain, 06 July 2024. A former Bank of England economist, the first Black Briton to attend Harvard Law School and an ex-union worker are among those given top jobs in Britain's first Labour government in 14 years. Keir StEPA/CHRIS J. RATCLIFFE / POOL
“I’m not comfortable with a trajectory that'll soon see Britain overtaken by Poland, nor am I prepared to accept what the consequences of this failure would mean. […] A brain drain not just to London or Edinburgh but to Leon, Munich and Warsaw, that's not the future our country deserves”, Starmer said last year.
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