PM to pledge 'hard work'

SIR Keir Starmer will compare his task as Prime Minister to the communities that rallied round to clean up in the wake of the summer's riots.

The Prime Minister will promise that his Government will do the 'hard work' to 'root out 14 years of rot' under the Conservatives.

Sir Keir will suggest the riots showed 'the cracks in our society after 14 years of failure.

But in a speech in the Downing Street rose garden, he will say: "The riots didn't just betray the sickness, they revealed the cure, found not in the cynical conflict of populism but in the coming together of a country the morning after and cleared up their community.

"Because that is who we are, that is what we stand for. People who cared for their neighbour.

"Communities who stood fast against hatred and division. Emergency services who did their duty - even when they were in danger.