Starmer: Election is moment country has been waiting for
Labour Leader Sir Keir Starmer says Rishi Sunak’s announcement of a July 4th general election is “the moment the country needs and has been waiting for”. Sir Keir says Labour would run its campaign with "a new spirit of service: country first, party second", insisting it presents “a chance to stop the chaos”. Report by Blairm. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn
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00:00 Tonight the Prime Minister has finally announced the next general election.
00:06 A moment the country needs and has been waiting for.
00:11 And where, by the force of our democracy, power returns to you.
00:18 A chance to change for the better.
00:21 Your future. Your community. Your country.
00:26 Now it will feel like a long campaign, I'm sure of that.
00:31 But no matter what else is said and done, that opportunity for change is what this election is about.
00:40 A vote for Labour is a vote for stability, economic and political.
00:46 A politics that treads more lightly on all our lives.
00:50 A vote to stop the chaos.
00:53 We do all this with a new spirit of service.
00:58 Country first, party second.
01:01 A rejection of the gesture politics you will see in this campaign, I have no doubt, from the Tories and the SNP.
01:09 I'm well aware of the cynicism people hold towards politicians at the moment.
01:15 But I came into politics late, having served our country as leader of the Crown Prosecution Service.
01:23 And I helped the police service in Northern Ireland to gain the consent of all communities.
01:29 Service of our country is the reason and the only reason why I am standing here now asking for your vote.