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Henry Zeffman From Wales to the West Midlands now, where we're hearing from Sir Keir Starmer, after he visited medical students this morning.
Chief political correspondent (As a reminder, Labour earlier announced it would set an 18-week target for most NHS patients in England to start treatment.)
After more than a year in which, to her frustration, there Startmer begins by explaining how he "grew up working class" and therefore understands the struggle of what it's like not to be able to pay your bills.
was no news about Diane Abbott’s status in the Labour Party, things are now "We lost the phone [service]," he says, echoing his keynote speech from Monday.
moving very quickly. And chaotically. Turning to the Conservative government, he says: "We cannot have another five years of this," before adding: "We have changed the [Labour] party fundamentally and it's unrecognisable from the party of five years ago."
So what to make of Sir Keir
Starmer’s intervention (which you can watch in the previous post)?
It’s genuinely hard to say.
Most people
are assuming that Starmer’s comments were a statement of technical fact.
After
all, no formal decision about Abbott’s candidacy can be made until Labour’s
national executive meets next week.
Starmer forcefully dismissing claims that
Abbott has been barred from standing might give Abbott space to announce her
retirement – should she wish to do so, which she may not – in a more dignified
manner than seemed likely this morning.
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