At the Labour Party conference in Liverpool, leader Sir Keir Starmer promised a 'decade of national renewal'. It came shortly after he was ambushed on stage and covered with glitter by protesters. Starmer isn’t the exception to the rule when it comes to how divisive politicians can be. But what do some of you think?
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00:00 Do you think Keir Starmer would be a better Prime Minister?
00:05 I honestly think that there's not a lot to choose between all of them.
00:09 I'm really quite jaundiced in my opinion of politicians
00:12 and it's amazing what they can say they can do
00:15 when any party is in opposition.
00:18 No.
00:19 That's just, I mean I'm more right-leaning to be honest anyway
00:24 but forgetting about that, I mean actually I'm more Green Party now,
00:27 now I've had a little revamp.
00:29 But no, I think I'm not a fan of him.
00:32 It'd be hard for me to articulate why just over the years of watching him,
00:35 watching him in the House of Commons and yeah,
00:37 just no, I'm not a fan of him at all.
00:40 I think he's a very fair man, he's very honest,
00:44 comes across very honest and as a Prime Minister,
00:48 honesty should be number one.
00:51 He's got more faces than Leeds Town Hall clock.
00:54 HS2, first of all he vigorously opposed it when he was an MP.
01:00 Then when the government announced it was not going to build the link to Leeds,
01:06 he said the Labour Party will build it to Leeds.
01:10 Now it's been scrapped altogether, I don't know where he stands.
01:12 I don't think he knows where he stands himself.
01:14 He's got to be better than British Union, that's for sure.
01:19 What do you think of Keir Starmer in general?
01:22 He's not left-wing enough for me.
01:24 I'm not sure, I can't answer that honestly.
01:27 I think I'm not, I can't come down on one side or the other.
01:30 I'm sorry, you'd have to prove it, but at the moment I'm not sure.
01:35 Based on the options that are available, he's probably the best person for the job.
01:39 I suppose that my only hesitancy is that he's probably the best of a bad bunch
01:44 in the sense that, you know, there's not really that much different about
01:48 all our potential leaders in the UK at the moment.
01:50 You've got the status quo, which is the Conservatives,
01:53 they've been in power for a long time.
01:55 And then what you've also got is an alternative that,
01:58 they basically don't have a vision.
02:00 They get an asked question of what they're going to do next,
02:02 and I don't think they have any answers to that,
02:04 and I think they're going to spend the next few months
02:06 trying to tell the public what that is.
02:08 I would certainly give him a chance because he's, him and his crowd,
02:13 let's call them a crowd, have turned the Labour Party
02:17 nearly as good as we want it.
02:20 Nearly as good as we want it.
02:22 We're not quite there, and I think if we do go into power,
02:26 we'll need a coalition government to take us there.
02:28 I think... I don't know, yeah.
02:30 I'm really cynical about politicians.
02:32 I think they say what everybody wants to hear.
02:34 Get in, and they don't do anything. Yeah, yeah.
02:36 It would be nice if somebody actually came in and did what they said
02:39 they were going to do, without a load of fuss and bother,
02:42 but just actually followed through with some of the promises
02:45 that they make to people who vote for them.
02:47 Along with my family, I've always voted Tory,
02:51 because I think...
02:53 I know the Tories are getting a load of stick at the minute,
02:57 but I think if Labour were back in power,
03:00 then I don't think it would be good for the country, personally.