As one Labour voter in Rochdale, Ayyaz, told the focus group: “Starmer has been given gifts of £100,000 or something like that. So these big politicians, they don't have a clue. They are on salaries of £180,000 or whatever it is. They do not have an idea of what the common man or the common woman lives by.”

PM Keir Starmer's personal approval rating now stands at -26 and is one point lower than the ex-Tory PM Rishi Sunak, whose own rating is -25, according to pollsters Opinium.

Labour conference kicks off as Starmer vows no more austerity - Labour is braced for a clash with unions over its winter fuel payment decision, as it weathers the storms of multiple rows at the heart of Government.

Before Sir Keir Starmer even arrived in Liverpool thousands of protesters took to the streets on the periphery of the conference for the UK's first pro-Palestine national march to be staged outside London.