Starmer: Getting out of Westminster favourite part of my job

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Sir Keir Starmer says that leaving Parliament and visiting communities across the UK "is the bit of the job I like most". The Prime Minister joined his Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, and Energy Secretary, Ed Miliband, on a visit to the Midlands to talk to working people about their thoughts on yesterday's Budget. Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00So this isn't a kind invitation for you to sit with me, Rachel and Ed, it's your right to sit

00:06with me, Rachel and Ed. It's not a kind invitation for you to tell me what you think, it's your right

00:12to tell me what you think. Because when we say we're a government service, we're serving you,

00:16and you have a right to tell us what you think, to push us if you think we should go further,

00:21to challenge us if you think we've done the wrong thing, or to tell us more what you want to

00:27support in what we're doing. So let's have that discussion. I see we've got some really nice

00:30biscuits, some coffee, some children, some smiles. But this is the bit of the job I like most, by the

00:38way, which is out of Parliament, in our communities, with people like you, because I always take away

00:47from these sessions, I will remember what you say, I'll mull it over in my mind, almost all of the

00:52ideas and thoughts and policies that I've been pushing forward, have come out of conversations

00:57with people across the country, I take away what people say, I mull it over on the train or whatever

01:03we're doing. And then who knows, the next time I'm announcing policy, it might be one of the ones

01:07that you've mentioned around this table, and you can say, I told him about that.

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