Speaking at the King’s Speech debate in the House of Commons, Sir Keir Starmer warns that the "snake oil charm of populism" is a "dead end" for the UK. The prime minister tells MPs that the new government will deliver “national renewal” ending politics “as noisy performance”. 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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00:00Mr. Speaker, this government has been elected to deliver nothing less than national renewal,
00:07to stop the chaos of the past 14 years, turn the page on an era of politics as noisy performance
00:14and return it to public service, and start the work of rebuilding our country. A determined
00:22rebuilding, a patient rebuilding, a calm rebuilding, a rejection in this complicated
00:31and volatile world of those who can only offer the easy answer, the snake oil charm of populism.
00:40Mr. Speaker, as the last 14 years have shown, that road is a dead end for this country.
00:47It does nothing to fix our foundations, and the British people have rejected it, as they
00:53have throughout our history. What people really want is change, and change is what this government
01:01of service will deliver. A King's Speech that takes the brakes off our economy and
01:08shows to the British people that politics can be a force for good, the vehicle for improving
01:15lives of millions.