Keir Starmer says Labour HAS changed – and it’s not just a ‘paint job’ in speech targeted at Tory voters

• Sir Keir will seek to put further distance between himself and Jeremy Corbyn

Sir Keir Starmer will today insist that changes in the Labour Party under his leadership are more than just a ‘paint job’ in a speech targeted at Conservative voters.

Criticising his predecessors Jeremy Corbyn and Ed Miliband – who is still a front bencher – the leader will acknowledge the public have had problems with his party ‘for a while’.

Speaking on the fourth anniversary of the 2019 General Election – which saw Labour lose in a landslide – Sir Keir will promise to give Britain ‘hope’ under a government ‘driven by your values’. In an appeal to Tory voters, he is expected to say: ‘This party sees our country through your eyes.

‘You know that we have changed fundamentally. Not just a paint job. A total overhaul. A different Labour Party. Driven by your values. Relentless in earning your vote.’

Sir Keir Starmer will insist that changes in the Labour Party under his leadership are more than just a ‘paint job’ in a speech targeted at Conservative voters

Criticising his predecessors Jeremy Corbyn (pictured) and Ed Miliband – who is still a front bencher – the leader will acknowledge the public have had problems with his party ‘for a while’

Sir Keir will seek to put further distance between himself and Mr Corbyn, despite serving in his predecessor’s shadow cabinet for four years, by suggesting the party has now been ‘restored… to the service of working people’.

And he will also claim Mr Miliband – his party’s climate spokesman – failed to gain the trust of the British people at the 2015 election. Sir Keir will say: ‘Working people up and down our country looked at my party, looked at the journey we’d been on – not just under Jeremy Corbyn, but for a while. And they said ‘no’.’

The Labour leader has been branded ‘Sir Flip-Flop’ for reversing multiple policy pledges.

Tory party chairman Richard Holden said: ‘The truth is Labour hasn’t changed. It’s the same old ideas of more borrowing, more debt and more taxes.

‘Sir Keir Starmer will never take the difficult decisions to deliver the long-term change this country needs.’

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