Watch: Starmer vows Labour will reverse populism and failure of Tories in first key speech as PM [Video]

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Watch as Sir Keir Starmer holds a press conference on Tuesday 27 August.

The prime minister used a Downing Street speech to promise his government will do the “hard work” to “root out 14 years of rot” under the Tories and suggested the recent riots showed “the cracks in our society after years of populism and failure”.

In a speech from the No 10 rose garden, he said: “The riots didn’t just betray the sickness, they revealed the cure, found not in the cynical conflict of populism but in the coming together of a country the morning after and cleared up their community.

“Because that is who we are, that is what we stand for. People who cared for their neighbour.

“Communities who stood fast against hatred and division. Emergency services who did …