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🔴Sir Keir Starmer is delivering a make-or-break speech as he looks to secure control of his party.

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➡️The Labour leader is expected to set out a new focus on building links with business and being responsible with taxpayers' money as he looks to take a more centrist approach than his predecessor

🔴But Sir Starmer has had a "bumpy" conference, David Lammy admitted this morning, following rows about trans rights and 'scumgate', the resignation of a shadow cabinet member and a union cutting ties overshadowing some of the policy announcement
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Sir Keir Starmer says it has not been an easy conference, with Sunday "particularly nerve-wracking" - then makes a joke about the football results.

⛽️He then goes in on the petrol crisis, saying: "Level up? You can't even fill up."

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🔴Sir Keir says Boris Johnson should either "get a grip" and clean up his mess "or get out of the way and let us do it"

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🔴Sir Keir Starmer makes an eyebrow-raising joke.

"My dad was a toolmaker - although in a way, so was Boris Johnson's," he says
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Sir Keir Starmer says his mum was a long-term patient of the NHS, having been diagnosed with a rare form of arthritis which "took a heavy toll".

The NHS was "her lifeline", he adds
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🔴Hecklers disrupt Sir Keir Starmer's speech

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✍️The latest analysis from @benrileysmith in Brighton:

"This whole speech is designed by his team as a way to show that he has faced down the hard Left within his party and changed it to become electable again"

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🔴Sir Keir Starmer says he will "put this government on notice" that he is here to clean up politics.

"Politics has to be clean; wrongdoing has to be punished" he says

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Sir Keir Starmer claims Labour will make "no promises we can’t keep or commitments we can’t pay for"

"I can promise you now Labour will be back in business"
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🔴Sir Keir Starmer has attacked "the Tories’ pathetic attempts to divide us in a culture war", as he praises the UK's diversity.

"Well, here in this conference hall we are patriots," he adds
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🔴Sir Keir Starmer has vowed to always have his eye on "the object" of winning.

"This is a big moment, a time of rapid change. The first pandemic in a century, the aftermath of Brexit to sort out, the urgent claim of the climate," he adds

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Sir Keir Starmer has delivered his keynote speech - but was it any good?

➡️He navigated several heckles - but has he done enough to shake off Labour's Corbyn past?
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