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Keir Starmer

What I Wish I'd Known

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What Was It Like for Your Dad?

My dad devoted himself to looking after my mum. He knew her illness and difficulties better than anyone in the world. His relationship with us was more distant, if I'm honest. It's caused me to think really hard about what it means to be a parent. If we needed comforts or a smile that would come from mum. It wouldn't really come from dad. But he carried something all his life, which is because he worked in a factory, he felt disrespected. The more I think about it, he feared that pause in the conversation when he said what he did for a living. That drove a real sense of injustice in him.

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