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Keir Starmer will deliver what is being billed as a major speech later, and in it he will identify “security, prosperity and respect” as the key to Labour’s election offer to Britain. In an overnight press released ahead of the speech, Labour said Starmer would set out “Labour’s ambition for a new Britain in which ‘you and your family get the security, prosperity and respect that they deserve’”.

These are abstract concepts, but this is how Labour in its news release explains them.

Security

Everyone has the basic right to feel safe in their own community.

I am personally thankful that I grew up in a country which had a national health service to care for my mum when she needed help, that gave me the opportunity to go to university and become a lawyer and fight for what is right.

This country has presented me with great opportunities. It’s a great place to live. But I don’t think you cease to be a patriot because you notice your country has flaws.

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