Starmer sets out pledges - and denies they're dilutedpublished at 13:25 British Summer Time 16 May
Damian Grammaticas
Political correspondent
Is Sir Keir Starmer actually diluting what he’d previously pledged to do?
After the Labour leader's speech, Beth Rigby of Sky News honed in on this with her question.
In early 2023, Sir Keir said the first of his five missions was to "achieve the highest sustained economic growth in the G7 by the end of Labour’s first term".
Today the first step is to deliver "economic security". On energy it was zero-carbon electricity by 2030 - now it's to set up a publicly-owned clean power company called "Great British Energy".
Sir Keir’s answer was: “I’m not scaling back on our ambition absolutely at all."
He argued: "This is not to reduce the missions, this is to say what is the first down payment on the delivery of those missions, what are the first steps we can take."
"The missions remain."
For Labour this is about what it can deliver on the way to those ends. Its opponents will try to argue that Sir Keir is shifting his ground.