Keir Starmer to say Parliament return is not ‘business as usual’

Sir Keir’s address marks a week before Parliament returns from a shortened summer recess and is expected to ramp up attacks on the inheritance left by the Conservatives.

The speech will echo some of the language used by Labour during and after the general election campaign.

Sir Keir will say “the business of politics will resume, but it will not be business as usual” and the government will “get a grip” on the problems faced in the UK.

The PM will warn that “things will get worse” in the UK before they get better as the Labour administration tries to deal with “not just an economic black hole but a societal black hole”.

He will say: “And that is why we have to take action and do things differently.

“Part of that is being honest with people – about the choices we face. And how tough this will be.

“Frankly – things will get worse before we get better.”

Sir Keir’s speech will also suggest that the UK riots earlier this month showed “the cracks in our society after 14 years of populism and failure”.

“The riots didn’t just betray the sickness, they revealed the cure, found not in the cynical conflict of populism but in the coming together of a country the morning after and cleared up their community,” he will add.