Sir Keir Starmer has addressed concerns about Labour’s politics, and their record of election losses, saying the party has seen ‘a total overhaul'
Starmer said: “The driving project of my time as Labour leader has always been to restore my party to the service of working people.
“Cast your mind back to the last election, four years ago today, December the 12th, 2019.The worst defeat for Labour since 1935.
“Working people up and down the country looked at my party, looked at how we'd lost our way, not just under Jeremy Corbyn, but for a while.
“And they said no, not this time. You don't listen to us anymore. You're not in our corner. You don't fight for our cause.
“And they were right, weren't they?
“We'd taken a leave of absence from our job description. Reneged on an old partnership, the labour bargain that we serve working people as they drive our country forward.
“And everything I've done as leader, every fight I've had has been to reconnect us to that purpose, to make sure we never put working people in that position again.
“That we say to them ‘you can choose Labour and know that we see our country through your eyes’.
“Know that we have changed fundamentally. Not just a paint job, a total overhaul, a different Labour Party driven by your values, relentless in earning your vote.
“It's a Labour Party that understands the first duty of government is always to protect its people.”
