Keir Starmer has written to Labour’s general election candidates urging them to celebrate St George’s Day “with enthusiasm” in a bid to “outmanoeuvre” the Tories on patriotism and national identity.
It is part of an attempt to “reassure swing voters that the party has changed under his leadership” and moved on from the days of Jeremy Corbyn. Starmer’s predecessor as Labour leader “often appeared uncomfortable with British institutions and symbols and argued for a ‘progressive patriotism'”, said The Guardian.
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