Sir Keir Starmer will vow on Thursday that Labour will not “get its big government chequebook out again” if it wins the next election, saying Britain cannot spend its way out of its current problems.

In a speech, the Labour leader will argue that his party is ready to govern again, criticising the “sticking plaster politics” of recent years and promising a plan for “a decade of national renewal”.

Sir Keir’s message is designed as a break from the Jeremy Corbyn era but may also be seen as marking a different approach to Gordon Brown, whose Treasury minister joked in a note when leaving office in 2010 that “there is no money left”.

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