Sir Keir Starmer pledges to put working class Brits ahead of system ‘rigged against them’
SIR Keir Starmer has vowed to smash the “class ceiling” he says is holding back hard-working Brits.
The Labour chief promised to be “straight with Sun readers” as he unveils plans to end the system “rigged in favour” of middle-class elites.
But he warns that will mean “taking on the blockers and the snobs, the naysayers and the defeatists”.
The aspiring PM, writing in today’s Sun, pledges to ditch “narrow and niche subjects” such as cutting tuition fees for middle- class kids and focus on “the real concerns of families up and down the land”.
He says he will focus on “gold plated” apprenticeships and boost language skills in schools which “the elite expect their children to have” but millions of the lesser well off do not.
In a plea to our readers, he says: “I can’t promise to fix everything in our country overnight.
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“I can’t promise that it will all be easy or plain-sailing. But I can promise that the next Labour government will be run in the interests of those who work hard and do the decent thing.”
Sir Keir, who is riding high in the polls, will use a speech in Kent today to unveil several pledges on how he and Labour would govern if gets to No 10.
Targeting education in the last of his five mission statements, he promises a reform of early years education and a modernisation of the school curriculum to prepare young people for the realities of the workplace.
And he has vowed to fix the black hole in the teaching profession to keep more staff in classrooms.
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He insists: “By doing those things, we will give the restorative, electric jolt of opportunity, ambition and possibility to our flatlining country.”