‘I want to win everywhere’: Keir Starmer sets out scale of Labour ambitions

Leader talks of fully costed, fully funded' plans for NHS, nursery places, social care and university funding

In the sunny garden of a local community centre in Thurrock, a relaxed-looking Keir Starmer, shirt sleeves rolled up, was surrounded by a buzz of television cameras, reporters and Labour party activists taking selfies.

Hundreds of miles away in North Yorkshire, Rishi Sunak, who had cancelled a press event on Saturday amid the fallout from his D-day blunder, spent a quiet day in his constituency, nursing his wounds.