'People are exhausted': Keir Starmer says election must 'return politics to force for good'

Sir Keir Starmer has told ITV News this week's general election is an opportunity to return politics to a "real force for good" as he acknowledged the British public have lost all trust.

With just days to go until the British public heads to the polls on Thursday, Sir Keir was asked by Peston on the campaign trail about what lessons he's learnt fromMarine Le Pen's far-right National Rally party secured 33% of the vote, edging them closer to forming the next government with one more round of voting to go next weekend. If they are victorious, they would become the country's first far-right government since the Nazi occupation of France during the Second World War.

"I genuinely think that people are exhausted with the constant division in politics and we have to find a way through that... and understand why people feel disaffected with politics and politicians and return politics to a sort of real force for good," he continued. "But that's why, first and foremost, we need a border security command in this country capable of carrying out that work of smashing the gangs, working with other countries in a way that I've seen for myself when I was chief prosecutor - in my case, smashing terrorist gangs."

"Actually, you can't tax your way to growth. You have to have a plan for growth and that's what our manifesto is all about. And I'm really pleased that for a number of years we've been talking to global investors about the stability that they're looking for, the long term strategy that they're looking for and the seriousness of government that they're looking for.

Sir Keir denied his plans lack ambition for a post-pandemic world that is grappling with major wars and hopes that a Labour government could have the same impact of the party's 1945 manifesto, which created the NHS.

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