Starmer warns of ‘long and difficult road’ to build fairer countryPrime Minister Sir Keir Starmer, with his wife Lady Victoria Starmer, rehearsing his Labour Party conference keynote speech before he addresses delegates at the ACC in Liverpool on Tuesday. Stefan Rousseau/PA WirePrime Minister Keir Starmer will tell Labour members that the government faces a “long and difficult” path towards rebuilding the country in a speech set to define his leadership after a troubled year in office. Starmer’s speech on Tuesday afternoon will warn the audience at the Labour Party Conference that decisions will not be “cost-free”, a message that further suggests sweeping tax rises will be made at the Budget. “We can choose decency, or we can choose division,” Starmer will tell members. “And yet we need to be clear that our path, the path of renewal, it’s long, it’s difficult, it requires decisions that are not cost-free or easy.