UK Labour leadership candidate promises ‘attack unit that lays bare every Tory failure’

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Keir Starmer has vowed to create an &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;attack unit” aimed at exposing &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Tory failure” if he is elected Labour leader&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The unit&comma; which would come from Labour’s media team&comma; would begin work following a proposed restructuring of the party&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads1--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The comments came as a YouGov poll for <i>Sky News<&sol;i> of people eligible to vote in the leadership election put Mr Starmer on 53&percnt;&comma; well ahead of left-wing candidate Rebecca Long-Bailey on 31&percnt; and Lisa Nandy on 16&percnt;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The survey suggests Mr Starmer could win in the first round of the ballot&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>I want to see a properly deployed Attack and Rebuttal Unit that lays bare every single Tory failure&comma;” he wrote in the Daily Mirror&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Holborn and St Pancras MP wrote in his column that the party had to unite if it was to earn voters’ trust and move from opposition to Government&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;People won’t trust us if we spend more time fighting ourselves than the Tories&comma;” he added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He also proposed a programme for the next two decades &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;every bit as transformative as the one” Labour founder Keir Hardie proposed 120 years ago&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<blockquote><p>What they were saying was we want change&comma; desperately want change&comma; but we don&&num;8217&semi;t trust your party<&sol;p><&sol;blockquote>&NewLine;<p><&excl;--Ads2--><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Earlier&comma; the leadership frontrunner said Prime Minister Boris Johnson won December general election because Labour made the Conservative leader look good&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>He denied that the Prime Minister’s force of personality was a key part of the Tory victory&comma; telling ITV’s Peston&colon; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;No&period; We made him look good&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;I think I went to 44 constituencies with campaign teams in the general election – nobody reported back to me the people were saying &OpenCurlyQuote;Boris Johnson’s great&comma; he’s just what we want’&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;What they were saying was we want change&comma; desperately want change&comma; but we don’t trust your party&period;”<&sol;p>&NewLine;<figure id&equals;"attachment&lowbar;150457" aria-describedby&equals;"caption-attachment-150457" style&equals;"width&colon; 600px" class&equals;"wp-caption aligncenter"><img class&equals;"size-full wp-image-150457" src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2020&sol;02&sol;E56F7F3F-5B3D-42D8-97AF-CE2AC086E9BB&period;jpeg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"600" &sol;><figcaption id&equals;"caption-attachment-150457" class&equals;"wp-caption-text">Keir Starmer&comma; 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