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From Wales to the West Midlands now, where we're hearing from Sir Keir Starmer, after he visited medical students this morning. As our correspondent Nick Eardley reported earlier (see 14:16 BST post), the Diane Abbott row is somewhat overshadowing today's Labour campaign.
(As a reminder, Labour earlier announced it would set an 18-week target for most NHS patients in England to start treatment.) Now, Conservative Party chairman Richard Holden says Keir Starmer has “clearly been lying to people” about Abbott's status within the party.
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. Holden says that because Starmer sits on Labour’s National Executive Committee, he knows the full picture.
"We lost the phone [service]," he says, echoing his keynote speech from Monday. “The idea that he didn’t know what was going
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." on is clearly nonsense,” Holden says.
As we reported earlier, Starmer told broadcasters that “no decision
has been taken to bar Diane Abbott”.
Read a full recap of the row here.
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