Starmer defiant over leadership as party prepares for conference

SIR Keir Starmer has insisted he will “lead from the front” into the next general election amid speculation his premiership could be under threat, as he took the fight to “cowardly” Reform UK.

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The Prime Minister said “we can and we will” change the country, in an apparent slap-down of his potential future leadership challenger Andy Burnham, following the Greater Manchester mayor's calls for “wholesale change” in national politics. The Labour leader branded the Conservative Party “basically dead” while urging “reasonable, ’tolerant, decent” voters to reject the “politics of grievance” promoted by Nigel Farage’s poll-topping Reform.