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Keir Starmer’s hardest task lies ahead

23 September 2020

4:20 PM

23 September 2020

4:20 PM

Keir Starmer’s first conference speech as Labour leader took place in exceptional circumstances. Thanks to Covid, there was no party conference in the conventional sense. His speech lacked the usual enthusiastic audience primed to punctuate a leader’s rhetoric with cheers; nor was there a ten-minute-long standing ovation at its conclusion.

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