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Well I was not expecting that answer. I had asked Sir Keir Starmer how he felt being laughed for mentioning again that his father was a toolmaker or worked in a factory. It had happened on Wednesday night at a Sky News leaders’ event in Grimsby when the Labour leader – who was being grilled by journalists on the channel – said that his father was a tool maker, prompting laughter from several audience members. Speaking to me in the car park of Crewe Alexandria FC a visibly angry Starmer told me: “My Dad worked in a factory all his life. He felt people disrespected him. “It hit a nerve last nigh…

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