Starmer extols ‘common-sense over ideology’ in swipe at Truss and Sunak

Labour leader says new Conservative PM will not bring new dawn' and neither candidate has the answers to Britain's problems

Keir Starmer has warned that the arrival of a new Conservative prime minister on Tuesday is not a new dawn", as he made a fresh pitch to voters to back Labour.

The Labour leader wrote in the Sunday Telegraph that he backed common-sense, practical solutions over ideological purity" and that as summer turns to autumn, the shadows of crisis are lengthening, looming over the whole country".