Speaking to delegates, Labor Party leader Keir Starmer described his party as Britain's 'centrist party'.

Supported by a poll that put his party 17 percentage points ahead of the ruling Tories, Starmer said in Liverpool on Tuesday that the Labor Party was "the political wing of the British people" - a slogan from the centrist 1997 election manifesto with which Tony Blair agreed won a triumphant victory over the Conservatives.

Jochen Buchsteiner

Political correspondent in London.

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Starmer declared support for NATO "non-negotiable" and tried to challenge new Prime Minister Liz Truss on the issue of economic growth.

We will "fight" the Tories in this area with better concepts, he said.

The party congress is marked by the unrest on the markets about the new financial course of the government.

Starmer accused the Tories of "losing control of the UK economy" and "irresponsible" by cutting taxes and raising debt.

As head of government, he will only allow "fully counter-financed" initiatives, even if this means that "good Labor projects cannot be implemented as quickly as we would like".

But this is what “responsible governance” looks like.

Cooper also uses Blair

However, under a Labor government, the country would “become fairer and greener”.

By 2030, Great Britain should be fully powered by sustainable energy and a "green growth superpower".

It was only the second time the Labor leader, who took office at the start of the coronavirus pandemic, has delivered a conference speech.

In the morning, a survey institute measured the Labor Party's largest lead since 2001.

According to the surveys, 45 percent of citizens would vote for the largest opposition party and only 28 percent for the conservatives.

Nine percent voted for the Liberal Democrats, seven percent for the Green Party and four percent for the Scottish National Party (SNP).

Perhaps it was also because of these numbers that Starmer ruled out government cooperation with the SNP "under all circumstances" on Tuesday.

General elections are not expected before 2024.

Before Starmer, the party's domestic policy spokeswoman, Yvette Cooper, had sharply criticized the Tories' migration policy.

She announced that she would abolish the asylum processing program in Rwanda.

At the same time, she accused the government of wrong approaches to fighting crime.

Crime statistics have been "dismal" in 12 years of Tory rule, she said, promising to increase police forces.

She, too, used a well-known Blair quote: "Hard on crime, hard on the causes of crime."