a sharp decline in jobs in the manufacturing sector of Britain by 93,000 since the Conservatives took power. Accordingly, Starmer toured the heavily leave constituency to underline the need to reverse this this trend to power the country’s economy. “It’s not enough to just leave the EU and think the job is done: we must now make Brexit work. That means backing the places that powered our country to get our economy motoring again,” the Labour leader said ahead of the visit. “For too long the decline of manufacturing has been treated as if it was inevitable and irreversible. I will never accept that. But these figures show how the government’s failure to back British business has led to a shocking decline in the number of jobs.”
During the tour, he underscored the Labour party’s plans to invest £28 billi0on a year on the next generation of jobs. “The government has been in power for 12-years now and so coming to a place like Burnley after all that time and saying they’re finally going to get round to putting some money in is quite frankly insulting,” he said. “We want a buy, make and sell policy in Britain, which means that jobs will stay local and we want to deal with business rates and make our high streets driving again.”
