The Labour leader also tipped Neville to make a success of a career in politics.

Starmer said “public services should be in public hands" during the Labour leadership race.

The Resolution Foundation said 6.3 million families would soon be suffering from "fuel stress".

Meanwhile Covid has plunged more people into poverty, the charity said in a new report.

"The vast majority of Labour supporters want to see a Labour government, that's the whole point in the Labour Party," he said.

Despite two years of 'levelling-up' pledges, regional inequality is growing more stark, thinktank IPPR North said.

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“The approach of our friends and neighbours in Europe has been disappointing, with the leadership in France in particular showing a mean and rather childish attitude to any future relationship," the restaurant owner argued.

Writing in the New Statesman, Simon Heffer says even the Tory MPs who support Boris Johnson know that the game is up for him.