The prime minister will also say that the government’s legislative plans for the coming year, to be unveiled at the King’s Speech on Wednesday, will show “hope, urgency and exactly whose side we are on”.
“We will face up to the big challenges and we will make the big arguments,” he is expected to say, according to extracts released by Downing Street.
“To meet the challenges that our country faces incremental change won’t cut it,” he will add.
“On growth, defence, Europe, energy – we need a bigger response than we anticipated in 2024 because these are not ordinary times.”
In an intervention on Sunday, Rayner stopped short of launching a leadership bid herself but warned that Labour faced its “last chance” to repair its relationship with voters facing “squeezed living standards”.
In a lengthy statement, she called for “immediate action to cut costs for households,” action to help struggling high streets, a rising minimum wage and more public and community ownership “across the board”.
She also backed Andy Burnham to return to Westminster, adding the party had been wrong to block him from standing in a by-election in February and Labour needed to bring “our best players into Parliament”.
Business Secretary Peter Kyle said Labour had “just had the rug pulled out from under us” by the election results.
However, he argued that the prime minister was a man who “rises to the moment and he will again”.
Asked if Labour should allow Burnham to stand as an MP, Kyle said: “I don’t think our party at the moment needs another by-election and then a mayoral election, right at the moment where the country wants us to be focused, absolutely laser-like, on solving the big challenges that we face.”
