Sir Keir Starmer has been confronted by angry Labour voter in Liverpool.
The opposition leader visited the city on Monday to deliver a key note speech on his priorities for the country during the party’s next spell in government.
But Starmer’s standing on Merseyside has suffered greatly since he wrote a column for The Sun newspaper, despite previously insisting he would not.
Several local MPs claimed his article in the publication, which remains widely boycotted for its false coverage of Hillsborough, was a ‘betrayal’ last October.
At a business lunch, Starmer was taken to task by Audrey White, a 71-year-old local activist, on that incident as well as his record as Labour leader.
She told him: “I don’t know how you’ve got the guts to come to this city, after you’ve been interviewed and doing columns for The Sun newspaper, after the way we as a city were abused and the Hillsborough victims were abused by that paper.
“Secondly, you lied to us about uniting the party. I’m still a Labour Party member and you’ve expelled and witch hunted in the most vicious way I’ve ever seen in my lifetime. And I’ve been a member of the Labour Party for a long, long time.
“You have absolutely said you had ten pledges, you were going to carry on the (Jeremy) Corbyn legacy, and ever since you’ve done nothing but distance yourself from the ideas which tens of thousands of people joined the Labour Party to support.
“All you’ve done is feed into the Tory ideology of not supporting strikes, of carrying on with the privatisation of our health service.”