Sir Keir Starmer has admitted that Labour has lost voters’ trust and said he takes “full responsibility” for its poor performance in this week’s elections.
In a TV interview recorded several hours after the devastating loss of Hartlepool to Boris Johnson’s Tories, the Labour leader said he was “bitterly disappointed” by the results.
He admitted that Labour had not made its case strongly enough to voters and said the party had too often been “talking to ourselves” rather than to the people it hoped to lead.