Article 74KDF Starmer pledges to tackle new cost of living crisis at May elections campaign launch

Starmer pledges to tackle new cost of living crisis at May elections campaign launch

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Bethan McKernan Wales correspondent
from World news | The Guardian on (#74KDF)

Prime minister says 7 May vote is coming at time of war on two fronts' as Labour braces for heavy losses at polls

The 7 May elections are taking place against a backdrop of war on two fronts", Keir Starmer has said, as he pledged action to tackle the resurgent cost of living crisis.

Launching Labour's English local elections campaign in Wolverhampton on Monday, the prime minister said: We're facing a war on two fronts - the Ukraine war, now four and a bit years in ... and now the Iran war, which I know is causing huge concern.

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