Keir Starmer launches bid for UK Labour leadership with video emphasising trade union roots

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Keir Starmer launches bid for UK Labour leadership with video emphasising trade union roots
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The video also features words of support from Stephen Lawrence’s mother, saying he was “instrumental” in getting justice.

UK Labour MP Keir Starmer. Image: Jonathan Brady UK Labour MP Keir Starmer. Image: Jonathan Brady KEIR STARMER WILL launch his Labour leadership bid in Brexit-backing Stevenage as he calls on the party to listen to voters to win back trust.

Prominent backbenchers Jess Phillips and Lisa Nandy declared yesterday, while shadow foreign secretary Emily Thornberry and shadow Treasury minister Clive Lewis are also running. “We must push for a Green New Deal to tackle the climate crisis, demand dignity at the heart of our social security system and make the case for a radically transformed economy that empowers trade unions and communities that have been left behind,” Starmer.

Starmer’s work with the National Union of Mineworkers and on the McLibel case against McDonald’s is also highlighted. — Keir Starmer January 4, 2020 Source: Keir Starmer/Twitter But the outsiders will yet be hoping to boost their profiles, with the race not expected to formally get under way until Tuesday and the new leader installed by the end of March.

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