I was listening to BBC R4 PM just now and this is what I heard Keir Starmer say:
“Children should be able to go as far as their talent will take them. They shouldn’t have barriers. Poverty is a barrier to children realising their talents and being able to play their full part in the economy. And that’s why I’m really proud to have launched the strategy [on child poverty].”
What other Labour leader, Labour Prime Minister would have said ‘the economy’ and not ‘society’ in the above.
Does Labour see our children, including my grandchildren, as mere economic players? I want poverty to be to be tackled because of reasons of social justice not because of my yearning for an economy that Rachel Reeves can brag about.
Maybe the BBC has badly edited Starmer’s words – they did something similar recently I remember.
Or am I over-reacting?
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