POLITICS
Rishi Sunak: No-plan Labour would take us back to square one
Prime minister goes on the attack against ‘sniping’ Starmer but faces two tricky by-elections
Sunak visited a community sports centre in Lancashire, where he was urged by a Conservative councillor to invest in northern areas
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A Labour government would have “no plan, no progress” and would drag the country “back to square one”, Rishi Sunak said in his new year’s pitch to voters.
Firing the starting gun for what is likely to be a bitter election campaign, the prime minister described Sir Keir Starmer as someone who “just snipes from the sidelines”, telling voters in Accrington, Lancashire: “The choice facing our country is: do we stick with the plan that is starting to deliver the long-term change that our country needs, or do we go back to square one?”
Sunak attacked Starmer over key policy areas, saying: “He can’t tell you how he’s going to stop the boats because he doesn’t have a plan to do that. He can’t tell
