Amid unease on the left, Starmer aims to 'bring Labour home'

A year on from landing the party's top job, the leader plans on taking his message directly to the voters

Keir Starmer plans to spend the summer months criss-crossing the country to make his pitch directly to voters at scores of town hall-style meetings, in an attempt to bring Labour home" to its traditional supporters.

A year after his election, with his personal poll ratings slipping and amid growing internal unease about his leadership, Starmer's team say he hopes to emulate David Cameron, who fielded voters' questions face to face on his Cameron Direct" tour in 2008.