The Labour leader said: “I don’t often talk about my dad. He worked as a tool maker on a factory floor all of his life. "Also, he had this utter commitment and devotion to my mum.”Mr Starmer’s mother, Josephine, died in 2015 after suffering from the autoimmune condition Still’s disease. The politician was speaking on Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4. The Northern Soul fan chose Dobie Gray’s Out On The Floor, as well as Jim Reeves’ Welcome To My World – his mum’s favourite.

Source: Daily Mirror November 14, 2020 21:17 UTC