Vanilla nice? The 99s are on Starmer in Blackpool as local elections loom
by Mark Brown North of England correspondent from World news | The Guardian on (#6BB9G)
Labour leader insists party is cutting through with voters as he chats to locals and visits an ice-cream parlour
Of all the people Keir Starmer should meet on a bank holiday visit to Blackpool, it was a former neighbour from decades ago who wanted to chat about Kentish Town.
Starmer and Carol Morgan, visiting from Potters Bar, had a really warm, nostalgic chat about house numbers and where they had lived in relation to the local swimming pool as the Labour leader ordered ice-creams.
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