Read our privacy notice Thanks for signing up to theBrexit and beyond email {{ #verifyErrors }} {{ message }} {{ /verifyErrors }} {{ ^verifyErrors }} Something went wrong. Please try again later {{ /verifyErrors }}Keir Starmer has denied abandoning key pledges he made during his Labour leadership bid and said the “vast majority” of party members back him “100%”. “Let’s have a general election.”Earlier, during a feisty exchange with Radio 4 Today programme presenter Amol Rajan, Sir Keir denied that he had abandoned “those important statements of value and principle”. The host asked: “Who is going to vote for that?”Sir Keir Starmer promised to restore British pride (PA Wire)Sir Keir promised in his speech to end “sticking plaster politics” and said Labour’s approach would offer “a clarity that will ruffle feathers across Whitehall and beyond, but one that is necessary”. A spokesperson said Sir Keir had ditched “cast-iron pledges” on public ownership “in favour of the reheated third-way Blairism typified by these latest, vapid ‘missions’”.
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