Sir Keir Starmer helped Labour deliver a stunning victory at the general election - which should have meant he'd have an easy ride at the party conference. Instead, he's already under pressure from both his own party and the public.

As one Labour voter in Rochdale, Ayyaz, told the focus group: “Starmer has been given gifts of £100,000 or something like that. So these big politicians, they don't have a clue. They are on salaries of £180,000 or whatever it is. They do not have an idea of what the common man or the common woman lives by.”

Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer takes a selfie with Dawn Butler, MP for Brent East and Mayor of London Sadiq Khan at a reception during the Labour Party Conference in Liverpool. Picture date: Saturday September 21, 2024. The Labour Party’s first annual ...

Before Sir Keir Starmer even arrived in Liverpool thousands of protesters took to the streets on the periphery of the conference for the UK's first pro-Palestine national march to be staged outside London.

Starmer arrives at Labour conference with promise to rebuild UK - Sir Keir Starmer and Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner arrived at the party’s ‘biggest ever’ conference.