The Labour leader addressed the ongoing rift over keeping the government policy, saying his critics believe in the theory of difficult calls, but tries to put off making them.
Referring to a the party"having a row at the moment about tough choices", Sir Keir told the Future of Britain conference:"We keep saying collectively as a party we have got to take tough decisions and in the abstract everyone says, 'that's right Keir'.
"And then we get a tough decision, we have been in one of those in the last few days, and its, 'well I don't like that, can we just not make that one, I am sure there is another tough decision somewhere else that we could make'."But we have to make the tough decisions. This isn't some reflection on some focus group that says, 'we'd like Labour to have an economic straight jacket on', it is the fundamentals.
Pointing to former Tory PM Liz Truss and her disastrous mini-budget that saw the markets spiral in reaction to her fiscal decisions, Sir Keir said:"She proved the thesis that if you make unfunded commitments, the economy is damaged and working people pay the price. "So if you want proof that unfunded commitments cause economic damage, which is then visited on working people, you have got a living example of that and that can come from both sides of politics.
"So it is a fundamental. I will not let the next Labour government get anywhere near the equivalent of what Liz Truss did."
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