Keir Starmer: Labour must work with business to create fairer society

Labour leader calls for moral crusade' in wake of Covid pandemic to deliver social justice and equality

Keir Starmer has argued that Labour must build a strong partnership with businesses" if it is to create a more just and equal post-Covid society, announcing plans for a public saving scheme to boost investment in the recovery.

Castigating the government for wanting to maintain existing inequalities after the pandemic, the Labour leader set out what he called a moral crusade", borrowing Harold Wilson's phrase to set in place a national transformation equivalent to that seen after the second world war.

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