Keir Starmer has slammed the Conservatives during a speech covering their failure to curb migration, criticising their treatment of the working class.
Starmer said: "For too long, the Tories have written off working people, disregarded their communities as sources of the growth and dynamism we need.
"I grew up working class. My dad was a toolmaker, my mom a nurse. And this was the 1970s, when, like now, we had our fair share of cost of living crises.
"I know what this feels like. I know all about the 'what next' anxiety of rising prices. The fear of the postman coming down the path. Will he bring another bill we can't afford?
"But back then, while day-to-day life may have been tough, there was an idea that always comforted my parents, a faith in Britain that the future would be a happier place.
"Britain would be better for your children. Hard work in the end, in the long run, would be rewarded fairly.
"The question is, do you look around our country now and still believe it?"
