Conference speech: PM says his party opponents wanted ‘easier road to nowhere’

Keir Starmer has hit out at his left-wing opponents in his first Labour Party Conference speech as Prime Minister.

The Prime Minister suggested some in the party wanted to take the “easier road to nowhere” as he reflected on how he had pulled Labour towards the political centre-ground.

He said this speech was a “far cry” from his first conference speech in the party leadership during Covid, to a camera-man audience of one, and his subsequent conference speech in Brighton.

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He said: “People said we were going too far. People said we were going too fast. They didn’t want to face the country. They wanted to go back to a comfort zone, take the easier road to nowhere, duck the challenge of change.

“But we stood firm conference, we stood together conference and we won.”

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