Starmer says he cannot turn the taps on' to fix council funding crisis

I can't pretend that we could turn the taps on, pretend the damage hasn't been done to the economy it has, he said.

In saying levelling up, the government was tapping into something real that people yearn for. But they didn't have a viable plan, and they didn't do the hard yards. That's unforgivable, he said.

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