We’ve looked at this very carefully, but the fact is doing this through borrowing will push interest rates higher at a time when £1 in every £10 already goes on paying their interest.
Discussing the implications of borrowing for defense funding.
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They have been resolute in their support for me, firstly in becoming an MP and then becoming the leader of Labour party and then as prime minister.
I think once you’ve been prime minister, it’s important to answer the question: what are you going to do next? Having decided I’m going to concentrate on international affairs, I think it’s right to step down.
It’s work I started before I became an MP and it’s work I’m keen to continue after I’m an MP.
In six and a half years, I took our party from a historic defeat in 2019, changed it so it was fit to face the country and won a landslide general election victory in 2024.
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