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it is 7pm, good evening. i am nicky schiller. we are going to start of course with the general election campaign. the labour leader has pledged to stop the chaos and rebuild the country in his first major speech of the election campaign. sir keir starmer appealed to undecided voters and urged people to trust him to deliver economic stability and protect national security. rishi sunak, also out campaigning today, dismissed the speech as waffle , saying it contained not a single plan for the future . we ll have more about the prime minister shortly, but first here s our political editor chris mason on keir starmer s speech. a man waiting waiting for his moment, waiting, he hopes, to be prime minister. if you ve ever wondered what this man is all about, today was his attempt to give you an answer. the leader of the labour party, keir starmer. applause this, the village hall in lancing in west sussex, as sir keir spoke of his own background. if you re working class, you r
democracy, but to shore it up and counter the rise of what he sees as autocracies in the asia pacific region. well, we might have an idea by the end of this weekend whether america is indeed back and whether the rest of the world is prepared to accept its leadership in some of these issues. for now, thanks very much for going through all of that here. we ve got a few minutes, let s just give each of you a chance to mark our cards, mark the audience s cards, for any other stories that maybe haven t been getting the attention it should. brian, do you want to kick off first? yes, ithink. well, we were talking about brexit and northern irelandl a moment ago and the big problem with that, - i suppose, is trust. there is a lack of trust - between the eu and the uk, and you get the feeling that boris johnson isn t actuallyl trusted by brussels at the moment. -