Sir Keir Starmer was forced to correct himself this afternoon (September 24) as he delivered his keynote speech to the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. The prime minister said there will be difficult decisions ahead but he insisted there is light at the end of the tunnel in his speech which was aimed at injecting some hope into his warnings over Labour’s economic inheritance. It was an attempt by the Prime Minister to balance the messaging of the past few weeks with a note of optimism amid criticism that repeated warnings of tough choices to come in the Budget and a £22 billion “fiscal black hole” have been too gloomy.
However, while speaking to the audience while stood on stage, Sir Keir continued talking as a round of applause occurred, but his slip up didn’t go unnoticed. Sir Keir Starmer corrects 'sausages' speech blunder Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer mistakenly calls for the 'return of the sausages' instead of the hostages in Gaza during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. Follow live politics updates | https://t.
co/xItZsH7tea pic.twitter.com/7An3jB38Ys — Sky News (@SkyNews) September 24, 2024 He said he was encouraging an “immediate ceasefire in Gaza” and “the return of the sausages”.
Sky News shared the video clip of the speech to X, formerly Twitter, showing the prime minister’s slip-up and his quick correction, using the word “hostages” instead. Over the course of a wide-ranging speech, the key moments included Sir Keir insisting.
