Keir Starmer: ‘If you want change, you have to vote for it’

‘I think there is a yearning for change. But you have to vote for it,’ Starmer says. Photograph: Sarah Lee/The Guardian

In just five days’ time, Keir Starmer could be walking through the famous black door of No 10 as the country’s new prime minister. But even though the polls suggest that is the likely outcome, he’s not taking anything for granted.

“We’re as ever trying not to get ahead of ourselves,” he gently insists when asked if he has ever been inside the grace-and-favour flat above Downing Street (he hasn’t, for the record).