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Labour leader Keir Starmer is pressed on whether there is a perceived deficiency of enthusiasm for his get together.Concentration shifted to pushing an anti-lockdown agenda, with Richard Tice, party chairman at the time and existing leader declaring men and women mustn't “cover in anxiety” of Covid, echoing right-wing populist rhetoric of time.