Sir Keir Starmer claimed his government "have done more in seven weeks than the Conservatives have done in seven years" as he criticised the former government for "leaving a black hole in public finances." Speaking from the rose garden in Downing Street, the prime minister said: "We will do the hard work to root out 14 years of rot, reverse a decade of decline and fix the foundations."
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00:00We've done more in seven weeks than the last government did in seven years, and
00:07these are just the first steps towards the change that people voted for, the
00:12change that I'm determined to deliver. I won't shy away from making unpopular
00:18decisions now if it's the right thing for the country in the long term. That's
00:24what a government of service means. So when I talk about the inheritance the
00:31last government left us, the 22 billion pound black hole in our finances, that
00:37isn't about a line on a graph. That's about people's lives, your lives.
00:46The Tories are still not being honest. They know their recklessness cost them the
00:51election, but they won't accept the cost that they've inflicted on the country,
00:56and they won't apologize for what they've cost you. We will do the hard
01:02work to root out 14 years of rot, reverse a decade of decline, and fix the
01:08foundation. This is our country. Let's fix it together.