Labour leader’s constituents express distrust in politicians and contempt for Boris Johnson

The morning after Keir Starmer was barracked by anti-vaxxers and accused of being a “paedophile protector”, there was surprisingly little sympathy for the Labour leader in Talacre Town Green, in the heart of his Holborn and St Pancras constituency.

Starmer plays football in the park most weeks, but there was no sign of the supporters who gave him almost a 28,000 majority at the last election. “If I see him playing I’ll boo him,” said Tony Walters, 62, who was out walking Coco, his staffordshire bull terrier.

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