Keir Starmer film shows him outside childhood family home

Labour will broadcast a film of Keir Starmer outside his semi-detached childhood home in Surrey, aimed at underlining the party leader’s ordinary roots before a major address to the nation later on Wednesday night.

Starmer is pictured in the garden of his parents’ former home in Oxted in the party political broadcast that will air on television a few hours before he makes the address in response to Boris Johnson’s message on Tuesday.

He will mention being the first in his family to go to university and how the NHS cared for his disabled mother.

The broadcast will also underline the party’s focus on leadership values and patriotism, which was emphasised in the virtual conference speech delivered by Starmer on Tuesday, an effort to put clear water between both him and Johnson and him and his predecessor Jeremy Corbyn.

The broadcast highlights Starmer speaking to veterans at the Cenotaph and talking about NHS support for his mother. Standing at his childhood home, he will say: “Together we can make Britain the best place to grow up in and the best place to grow old in.”

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Filming took place over the summer across the UK, including Edinburgh, Stevenage, Birmingham, Chesterfield and north Wales, as Starmer toured the country. Narrating the film, Starmer says: “I love this country. I’m proud of this country, of all it has achieved and all it will go on to achieve.

“This country has given me so much. An NHS that cared for my mother for much of her life. The chance to be the first in my family to go to university, to go on into the law and to lead our Crown Prosecution Service for five years.”

The Labour leader’s address on the BBC, expected around 8pm, will express support for the new restrictions aimed at containing the virus. However, it will also underline that any second full lockdown should not been seen as inevitable but rather as a strategic failure by the government.