Keir Starmer speech – live: Labour leader plans decade in power

Sir Keir Starmer is set to promise a decade of Labour in power when he addresses his party conference in Liverpool later.

With the Conservative Party in disarray and lagging behind in the opinion polls, Labour is eyeing up at least two terms in government after the next general election.

Starmer is expected to tell the conference that the UK has been “ruined” by 13 years of Tory rule.

In his speech, scheduled for 2pm on Tuesday, he will promise a “decade of national renewal”, indicating he is confident his party will be in 10 Downing Street until the mid-2030s.

Starmer is expected to pledge that Labour will “get Britain building”, announcing a “new generation” of large towns and suburbs, with Georgian-style townhouses in urban developments, should the party win the next general election.

Starmer, who took over the Labour leadership from Jeremy Corbyn following its disastrous 2019 general election campaign, will say the party “will never go back” to being “in thrall to gesture politics” and “a party of protest”.