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By Eliot Wilson The Labour leader will have his work cut out convincing voters in the countryside that he has their interests at heart, says Eliot Wilson Keir Starmer’s first job was on a farm. This social media revelation will have taken many by surprise: the well-presented, five-a-side playing Sir Keir Starmer LLB BCL KC, human rights lawyer and hero of the McLibel trial, is almost the epitome of the urban, liberal, professional classes. Yet the Labour Party, which won just two of the UK’s 124 most rural constituencies at the last election, has begun a daring raid on the countryside. Last we…

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