Starmer says party conference an opportunity to give voters an answer to the ‘why Labour?’ question – UK politics live

As Labour’s conference starts in Liverpool Starmer will be hoping to give voters a reason to be enthusiastic about his party

Using a line that he deployed in an interview with the Times yesterday, Wes Streeting told Trevor Phillips that the Conservative party had been taken over by “cranks, crackpots and conspiracy theorists”.

Wes Streeting, the shadow health secretary, is being interviewed by Trevor Phillips on Sky News. When it was put to him that NHS staff were already feeling overworked, and he was asked why they would want to do more overtime, as Labour’s plan assumes (see 8.55am), Streeting said staff would not have to do overtime if they did not want to, and that they would be paid fairly for the work they did.

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