Keir Starmer declared his pride in his country today as he embarked on a virtual tour of parts of Britain Labour needs to win back.
The Labour leader is taking part in hour-long online Q&A sessions, hoping to signal a shift in attitudes that will resonate with the party's lost working class heartland.
One voter, Matthew from Bury, told Mr Starmer he'd been driven away from the party by its attitude to national pride under Jeremy Corbyn ’s leadership.
He said: "These are the kind of things that kept me away from Labour in the last General Election. “It seems a bit like if you express any kind of national pride, any kind of waving of a Union Jack you're automatically labelled as a racist." Mr Starmer replied: "I'm really proud of my