Keir Starmer reveals moment he considered quitting as Labour leader

Keir Starmer revealed the moment he considered quitting as Labour leader.Source: Sky News

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00:00It really hit me because my job was to turn around the Labour Party and take us from defeat to

00:06success and losing hurts and it should hurt in politics because this isn't about me it's about

00:12whether the Labour Party can come back into government and serve working people so yes it

00:16was a very very low moment. It required me then to double down and turbocharge the change that

00:25we needed in the Labour Party so in that respect you know retrospectively it was a good thing

00:30because it forced that onward pace but I'm not going to pretend it wasn't a really hard time.

00:34Did you you thought about quitting that day?

00:37I did because I didn't feel that I should be bigger than the party and that if I couldn't

00:44bring about the change then perhaps there should be a change but actually in the end

00:50I reflected on it talked to very many people and doubled down and determined no it's the

00:56change in the Labour Party we need and I do feel vindicated because we are now a changed party

01:02nobody argues with that they know we're a changed party.