Starmer: Real Progress Helping British Families

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer noted that his government’s progress on multiple issues was delivering much needed results and relief for the British people.

This includes:

• Net migration has fallen by almost three quarters to its lowest level since 2021. 

• Inflation has dropped faster than expected to 2.8%. 

• The UK is the fastest growing economy in the G7, with growth beating expectations at 0.6% in the first quarter. 

Together, this progress is strengthening the UK’s resilience in an uncertain world - easing immediate pressures on families while putting the economy on a more stable footing for the long term. 

That progress is being felt more widely across the country, as the government rebuilds the public services working people rely on: 

• Homicide is at its lowest levels since the 1970s, knife crime is down by 10 percent, and we have taken more than 63,000 knives off our streets. 

• NHS waiting lists are at their lowest level for three and a half years, with the largest single month performance improvement in 17 years.

• There are 4,000 additional teachers across secondary schools, special schools and further education.