Keir Starmer: ‘I’m against austerity. But we’re going to have to be fiscally disciplined’

The Labour leader is keen to emphasise he would be a prudent PM despite inheriting cash-starved public services

Keir Starmer leans over an open newspaper and points out a picture of him and the shadow chancellor, Rachel Reeves, holding hi-tech rivet guns while touring a design lab.

“I’ve had a few shadow cabinet ministers ask me if this is how we’re going to get them to stick to fiscal discipline,” he jokes, before an interview with the Guardian in his constituency office in Camden, north London.