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Labour’s leader Sir Keir Starmer has said wealth creation will be the “number one priority” in his party’s general election manifesto.<\/b><\/p>\n

The document setting out what Labour will do in government if Sir Keir becomes prime minister in 21 days’ time will be unveiled later on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Sir Keir has stressed there will be “no surprises” on tax, as he seeks to defuse Tory attacks that his party would put them up.<\/p>\n

“I think people are taxed too much already. What I want to do, my central mission, is to grow the economy,” he said in a Sky News election special.<\/p>\n

Only by growing the economy can Labour generate the funds needed for public services, he argued.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The manifesto launch will be a chance for Labour to showcase key policies it had already announced before the election campaign began.<\/p>\n

These include setting up a new state-owned energy investment and generation company, hiring more police officers and renationalising nearly all passenger rail.<\/p>\n

But the party could also offer more detail in other priority areas such as planning reform, which it has put front and centre of its economic plans.<\/p>\n

Ahead of the launch, Sir Keir said wealth creation was “our number one priority” and “growth is our core business”.<\/p>\n

“If we could grow the economy at anything like the level the last Labour government did, that\u2019s an extra \u00a370bn worth of investment for our public services,” he added.<\/p>\n

He argued that “billions upon billions in projects” could be unlocked through changes to investment rules and the planning regime, but were currently “held up by the blockers of aspiration”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Labour’s manifesto was signed off at a party meeting last week but has failed to win the support<\/a> of Unite, its biggest trade union backer, which argues the party’s scaled-back plans to improve workers’ rights do not go far enough.<\/p>\n

The package, first unveiled in 2021, would scrap qualifying times for parental leave and sick pay rights when employees start a new job, and boost flexible working rights where “reasonably feasible”.<\/p>\n

But notably, a pledge to introduce collective wage bargaining \u201cacross the economy\u201d has been replaced with a plan to “start by” introducing a fair pay agreement in the adult social care sector, before a potential roll-out in other areas.<\/p>\n

Other policies expected to feature in the manifesto include:<\/p>\n