Starmer must offer hope to Stoke and broken Labour heartlands
It is a cold night on a Stoke-on-Trent industrial estate and Keir Starmer is in town again. It’s at least his seventh trip here in search of redemption after Labour’s historic defeat in 2019, in a sign of how important he sees the Potteries to the party’s future.
“I feel I’m getting to know Stoke quite well,” he tells me. “And we’ll keep on coming. I think it’s very, very important. The sort of discussion we want to have tonight is not a discussion we could have in London. You’ve got to have it where people live, in their place, in their town, about the issues that matter to them.”
Flanked by his shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, the Labour leader has gathered a group of about 30 voters of all political stripes in a warehouse on an industrial
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