Francesca Gillett
Live editor

So, five months on from the election, Sir Keir Starmer has set out what he's calling his "plan for change".

The prime minister reiterated the key pledges that formed Labour's manifesto, but also gave new details about how he plans to get there.

We've summarised the six targets here. Starmer says these are the metrics he wants people to judge him against.

As our political editor Chris Mason wrote, it felt like a manifesto launch.

Starmer also took aim at the civil service in the speech. Chief political correspondent Henry Zeffman says the frustration with Whitehall is beginning to spill into public view.

Our colleagues at BBC Verify have looked at the six targets, and how achievable they might be.

We're closing our live coverage now. Thanks for joining us.

Neha Gohil
Live reporter

The PM's speech at Pinewood Studios in Buckinghamshire aimed to set out his government’s "plan for change" for Britain. Here's what happened:

• The PM announced six targets on areas such as the economy, policing, the NHS and housebuilding - we've listed them here
• He'd been accused of repeating or watering down pledges he'd set out before - the Tories called today an "emergency reset" after his first few months in office - but Starmer said the purpose of the speech was to set out measurable targets that the public can judge him by

• Among the pledges was a target to raise living standards in every part of the UK - but as our correspondent writes, this is a hard one to measure
• On education, Starmer said a key target was to ensure 75% of five-year-olds in England are "ready to learn" when they start school

• He also pledged to increase neighbourhood police officers by 13,000, and meet the target to get 92% of NHS patients treated within 18 weeks of referral

• Starmer also recommitted to building 1.5 million homes and promised to fast-track planning decisions on 150 major infrastructure projects

• He's faced some criticism from opposition parties for not committing to a target on immigration - but promised to "reduce immigration, legal and illegal”
• Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said the speech showed "a government that doesn't know what it is doing"

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Vanessa Clarke
Education reporter

Early years charities and teachers’ unions have broadly welcomed the target to get more children “school ready” by 2028.

In his speech Keir Starmer said it was a scandal that some children were arriving at school “struggling to speak”.

While headteachers are calling for more investment in speech and language therapy, many nurseries are calling for more funding – saying the National Insurance changes in April will seriously challenge their sustainability.

This does not bode well for all children getting the best start in life, the National Day Nurseries Association says.

The government is currently rolling out funded childcare hours for working parents, and by next September, 30 hours will be available per week for children from nine months – a huge investment.

But the Sutton Trust says that better off families will receive this and disadvantaged young children risk being increasingly “locked out”, making the target the government has set “a momentous task”.

Paul Whiteman, who is the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, has welcomed the focus on early childhood education, after Starmer pledged to ensure that 75% of five-year-olds start school "ready to learn".

"School leaders are seeing an increasing number of children arrive at school with speech and language delays," Whiteman says, noting that cuts to support services over the previous decade have had a "devastating effect".

“Early support and high-quality intervention is one of the nearest things we have to a silver bullet when it comes to education policy," he says.

Why only 95% clean power?published at 13:33 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

13:33 GMT 5 December

By Mark Poynting

Labour’s manifesto stated that “clean energy by 2030 is Labour’s second mission”, pledging a “zero-carbon electricity system”.

Now, the government is defining the target as “at least 95% clean power by 2030”.

This follows a report by the National Energy System Operator, an independent body overseeing the energy transition.

It defined a clean power system as one where polluting gas, without technology to capture emissions, will “provide less than 5% of Great Britain’s generation in a typical weather year”.

Electricity generation from renewables drops during less sunny and less windy periods. Some gas is seen as necessary to fill these gaps.

Many emerging low-carbon technologies, such as battery storage, may be able to do this job in the future, but are still at early stages.

As a result, eliminating the final few percent of gas from the electricity mix by 2030 would be particularly challenging and would likely add to costs.

Shadow energy secretary Claire Coutinho has accused the government of watering down its pledge. The previous Conservative administration had also pledged 95% low-carbon electricity by 2030.

Veteran Labour MP Diane Abbott criticises Starmer's comments on migration early on in his speech today.

She says "claiming to be tougher on migration than the Tories is a political dead end for Labour".

Tackling migration was not among the prime minister's six milestones outlined today, but Starmer did mention the topic, saying that he will "reduce immigration - legal and illegal".

Abbott, who is the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, was embroiled in a row with Starmer during the election campaign over whether the party would select her as its candidate in the seat.

The Green Party's co-leader, Adrian Ramsay, says today's "listicle" points in the right direction on a handful of issues, but is "not a clear route to change".

"We have a country reeling from severe flooding and facing more storms this weekend, a country where people are struggling to heat their homes this winter, and a country worried about finding the school places and doctor appointments that those they love need," he says.

"We wanted today to see a gear change in this government where they accept that we need to ask the very richest to pay more tax so we could properly fund all our frontline public services."

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In case you missed it, here's a summary of the six milestones the PM laid out in his speech today:

1. Housing - A target to build 1.5 million homes and fast-track planning decisions on more than 150 more major economic infrastructure projects, which our economics editor says could be politically controversial
2. Living standards - He promises higher living standards in every part of the UK, putting more money in working people's pockets and delivering the highest sustained growth in the G7. This could be hard to measure, says our economics correspondent
3. Safe streets - He pledged 13,000 more police officers, PCSOs and special constables for the streets. Our home editor says this might not cut crime but could improve trust
4. NHS waiting lists - A target to meet the NHS standard for 92% of patients in England to wait no more than 18 weeks for treatment. A big ask, says our health correspondent
5. Energy - Starmer promises to "secure home-grown energy" to put the UK on track to deliver at least 95% clean power by 2030, a step towards net zero
6. Children - A new pledge, Starmer promises to ensure a record proportion of 75% of five-year-olds start school "ready to learn"

More reaction now from the Tories - after Badenoch earlier criticised Starmer on the lack of an immigration target, as well as his other pledges.

Alex Burghart, who is the shadow chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, says: "The latest Labour reset - after only five months - is another sign that the wheels are off and are bouncing down the street.

"The rate at which this government breaks its promises to businesses, pensioners and farmers means it’s very difficult to take these pledges seriously.

"The government needs to be clear about which ministers will carry the can when these pledges aren’t met."

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Reform UK leader Nigel Farage notes the failure to include immigration in Starmer's six key milestones.

"This reset offers no change and guarantees economic failure," he says on X.

Nick Triggle
Health Correspondent

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The NHS mission set out by the prime minister is a big ask. It is nearly 10 years since the 18-week hospital waiting time target was hit in England.

Latest figures show there is a long way to go with four in 10 people currently waiting longer than 18 weeks.

The government has already set out plans to increase the number of appointments and operations being done - by 40,000 a week.

But in recent years, despite spending rising, hospitals have struggled to increase activity.

While the prime minister was speaking about the long term, it became clear there was a more immediate problem brewing: getting the NHS through winter.

The first winter performance figures show around 95% of beds are full, with ambulances facing long waits dropping their patients off - plus rising rates of flu and the vomiting bug norovirus adding to the strain.

NHS England’s medical director says hospitals have never been busier ahead of Christmas.

The leader of the Liberal Democrats says it is "worrying to see no clear plan" in Sir Keir Starmer's targets to make sure people can see a GP when they need to.

“Pledging to bring down waiting lists while neglecting GP services is like robbing Peter to pay Paul," Sir Ed Davey says.

“Millions are struggling to get through to their GP or having to wait weeks for an appointment, which just piles more pressure on our hospitals while people go without the care they need.”

Davey vows his party will "hold this government's feet to the fire on keeping its promises" - especially when it comes to the NHS and care.

The prime minister has finished taking questions and has left the stage.

Stay with us as we recap on what was just said, and bring you the latest analysis on each policy area.

Starmer's living standards target is not a stretching ambitionpublished at 12:13 Greenwich Mean Time 5 December

12:13 GMT 5 December

Faisal Islam
Economics editor

The Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) has already predicted that the measure of living standards identified by the prime minister as his new milestone is already due to be rising by an average of 0.5% per year in this Parliament or 3.5% overall.

The “plan for change” clarifies that progress against this milestone is to be measured “through higher Real Household Disposable Income per person and GDP per capita by the end of the Parliament”.

This is not a stretching ambition.

In the decade before the pandemic the average rise in this measure was 1%. Even that was slow compared to a previous norm of 2-3%.

The milestone is supplemented by “tracking” GDP per head at regional and national level, the document says.

While we're listening to Keir Starmer taking questions from journalists, Tory leader Kemi Badenoch has reacted to the PM's speech by saying his "emergency reset confirms that Labour had 14 years in opposition and still weren’t ready for government".

Badenoch says the address contains "nothing concrete on immigration", which she says indicates that Labour "have no plan to control numbers".

She goes on to say: "Fastest growth in the G7 in this Parliament dropped - because of the hit to the economy from the Budget.

"Costly plans for energy decarbonisation watered-down - while poor pensioners lose their winter fuel payments.

"And fewer than a third of Labour’s 13,000 neighbourhood police are actually new police officers."

She concludes the post on X by adding, external: "This relaunch can't hide the reality of a government that doesn’t know what it is doing."

Starmer is asked next about economic growth - the journalist says none of the six targets chosen will drive growth.

Has the government given up on prioritising economic growth?

Starmer pushes back. "They've all got everything to do about growth", he says - saying for example housing is a huge factor in determining growth in both providing projects and allowing people choice to live where they want to work.

He says growth is the "number one mission of this government".

Keir Starmer denies Labour is rowing back on its clean energy target, in reply to a journalist who asks if he's watering down the party's pledge to achieve 100% clean energy by 2030.

The document today only puts that at 95, the journalist says.

Starmer says it's exactly what was promised in the election and it was tough, but it could be done.

"There's no watering down," he claimed, "there's a doubling down".

Starmer is next asked whether he's watering down his promises after realising that government is harder than he might have thought.

He denies this, saying that his previous "missions" were announced two years ago and that he's just reiterating them. They were part of the foundational document in the manifesto, he adds.

"It was the change that people voted for," he says

He says the "milestones" announced today have been set out so that people can measure the government's progress.

"These are, if you'd like, something for the public to use to hold us to account," he says.

Another question to Starmer is on why he described the target to build 1.5 million homes during his term as "hugely ambitious".

Is he preparing the ground for potential failure?

The prime minister responds by saying it is ambitious and it's huge.

"This hasn't been done for decades and decades. But we're going to go for it," he says, adding that previous governments were scared to take the planning decisions that were necessary to deliver on housing.