Keir Starmer’s plan to rebuild Britain - podcast

At a party conference overshadowed by events in Israel and Gaza, Keir Starmer took to the stage in Liverpool ready to set out his argument for leading the country. He was ambushed by a glitter-throwing protester before he had begun, but shrugged it off with a line that would reinforce his central message: Labour, he said, was now interested in power not protest.

It was an argument he developed over his hour-long speech. As Kiran Stacey tells Nosheen Iqbal, he made the case that Britain after 13 years of Conservative rule needed renewal and rebuilding. And in contrast to last week’s Conservative party conference, this was a gathering of a party confident in itself and united behind its leader.