Sir Keir Starmer is not getting “carried away” with the prospect of the Labour Party winning power at the next general election, one of his allies insisted this morning, despite talk of a decade in power. 

Sir Keir is expected to use his speech at Labour conference in Liverpool this afternoon to declare he has plans for a decade in No10. 

He is expected to say that Labour will “turn our backs on never-ending Tory decline with a decade of national renewal”, giving the British people the “government they deserve”.

Pat McFadden, Labour’s national campaign coordinator, insisted Sir Keir was “assuming nothing” by using the word “decade”.

Told that it sounded like Labour was getting “carried away”, Mr McFadden told the BBC Breakfast programme: “No. He is not presuming anything. By using that phrase what he is doing is he is setting out realistically that after 13 years of the Conservatives it is going to take time to turn things around.”

He added: “By using the phrase decade he is assuming nothing. What he is doing is being honest with the people about the time it is going to take to face up to the challenges that the country faces right now.” 

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