Keir Starmer: ‘We need to show the country that we are the change’

As a Labour party transformed by its leader in the last three years prepares for its conference in Liverpool, the man bidding to be the next PM remains adamant that big challenges still lie ahead

When we interviewed Sir Keir Starmer three years ago on the eve of his first party conference as Labour leader, he declared: “We have a mountain to climb.”

It was a mountain so big that many thought he could not possibly scale it. Thanks to the magnitude of the party’s 2019 election defeat, few Labour people then believed that such an electoral Everest would look conquerable three years later. When we ask him how far up the mountain Labour has ascended, Starmer can reply with credibility: “We can see the summit clearly now.” He quickly adds: “But we’ve got to keep climbing.”

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