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This episode of Newscast is coming to you from Westminster because it's another big political day because Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister, has been doing a speech where he's been setting out his six milestones, not to be confused with his five missions or his three priorities.
What he's trying to do here and what he was trying to do in this speech that he gave at Pinewood Studios is just give some kind of measurable targets and goals by which we can all judge the government in a couple of years time.
Now there are six milestones for the five missions and I think I've been living with them for enough hours now to be able to say them off the top of my head, so wish me luck.
On the economy, it is to have an increase in real household disposable income and gdp, gross domestic product per person in all areas of the UK and also a recommitment to build 1.5 million new homes by the end of this Parliament, so over five years.
On crime, it's to recruit 13,000 new police officers and community support officers and specials, so that every neighborhood has their own named police officer looking after it.
On education, it's to have 75% of 5 year olds up to the required standard so that they're starting school in really good form when it comes to literacy and things like that.
And on the NHS, it's to have 92% of people having their elective care without having to wait more than 18 weeks for it.
And on clean power, it's to have a 95% of electricity coming from renewable sources, no carbon, by 2030, which is slightly different from what the Labour Party said in their manifesto at the election.
So those are the six yardsticks by which we will all have to measure the success of Sir Keir Starmer as Prime Minister and his government.
We will be discussing what those targets mean, what's been going on behind the scenes that has led to them, with Henry Zeffman, chief Political correspondent, and we'll Also speak to Jonathan Reynolds, the business secretary, who will be here in the studio with his big red ministerial folder, no doubt reading out those six milestones, but also just telling us a bit more about the thinking behind them.
And hopefully we can have a bit of back and forth with him about whether these are actually real, real, meaningful targets.
All of that on this episode of Newscast, Newscast, Newscast from the BBC.
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