Newly elected PM Starmer says aims to turn UK economy around • FRANCE 24 English

Newly elected UK prime minister Keir Starmer on Saturday who began his first full day in charge said he aims to turn the UK economy around. Starmer spent his first hours in Downing Street on Friday appointing his ministerial team, hours after securing his centre-left party's return to power with a whopping 174-seat majority in the UK parliament.
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[@AlgoNudger]

Larry's spotted. 😂

[@bang8534]

The decline of empire is irreversible

[@paullarne]

As the EU is finding out. The UK had its Empire and all but one member (Ireland) stayed in the Commonwealth.

[@456inthemix]

The super-rich Brits are not very optimistic, they are looking for new homes in so-called tax havens such as Switzerland and Monaco. "Barbados will soon become too boring for us, sun and sea and because there is no western art and culture there." Switzerland has art museums, an opera house and well-known boarding schools, is very centrally located in terms of transport and is a very safe country. The downside of the medallion is that the housing market is overheated in some places in Switzerland.

[@twestgard2]

It really doesn’t matter. Their wealth is founded on assets that remain in wealthy countries and a properly designed tax system will reach them no matter where they’re housed.

[@radman8321]

Rich Brits already have a wide choice of UK tax havens to choose from.

[@paullarne]

There's a reason the top tax rate stayed at 40% for all but the last 6 weeks of the last Labour government. Brown and Blair knew that if you take too much off the rich they leave and don't pay anything.

[@Bdx357]

Watch businesses flee .. watch jobs leave.

[@Kwippy]

The economy will probably improve sooner or later, as the wars will end, or the world will learn to live with the wars. Stability will bring improvement. But what Starmer will inevitably fail to do is to fix the NHS. Either he raises taxes to fund the NHS, which will cause people to vote his government out, or he doesn't raise taxes and has no money to fix the NHS, which will also cause people to vote him out.

[@paullarne]

The problems with the NHS have much more to do with structure than money. The trouble is that changing that is hard and requires skill.

[@gregorymalchuk272]

Cheap energy and privatizing the overpaid, moribund state sector are the only things that could improve the economy.

[@svk4580]

How are you going to decide the difference between a 'Muslim' and 'an Islamist ' ? What a laughable statement by the PM of UK ! The attack by the Afghan in Germany had no previous history of violence 😂

[@honestopinion3635]

Very intelligent voters live in UK

[@MrAB-xc9du]

PM of UK couldn't bring the economy as it has external factors as well.

[@gaelicreaction1049]

The UK has a lot of influence on the global economy. London is one of the financial capitals of the world.

[@vjaysan]

Nothing a visit to China cannot solve.

[@I.Qxdddd]

Where is the Hindu Indian Sunak now?

[@lrc3661]

Even this guy will fail as pm

[@AnthonyD-yy2in]

At least the Tories are gone.. Keir Starmer loves his country, but he is going to let down a whole lot of British people.. 😐😐😐 Nothing much changes with politics.. 🤨

[@ronaldweaver6791]

Your new guy , has no new ideas

[@whattheflyingfuck...]

neither did the old ones they are british - do they have ideas? - a german engineer

[@liar-liar]

Nothing changes

[@AaronKaewprapai-qv7bc]

Without Made in China help, UK will never be able to turn around anything.

[@paullarne]

Then we'll work with China in a business like way.

[@tericonnelly3197]

You have my vote!

[@west5828]

😂

[@SK-lt1so]

Labour will "turn the economy around" and off a cliff.

[@fabianasensio1168]

Why?

[@SirSX3]

Like the Tories did? 😂

[@martynhaggerty2294]

You mean climb back up the cliff

[@gregorymalchuk272]

They'll run the economy like British Leyland. 🤭

[@tejpalsingh366]

Please rectify economy ... N kick out the fundamentalism n stupidty set by sunak..

[@Bewt-pv5rj]

UK needs to support Ukraine more now

[@petermellors6456]

useless

[@BY-pn2ry]

goodbye