Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer broke down in tears as he laid bare a series of family tragedies during the most "searingly honest and intensely emotional" interview of his life.
In a three-hour talk with presenter Piers Morgan, Sir Keir revealed how his ill mother died just weeks before he was sworn in as an MP and never got to see him in office.
He told how his father gave up on life and became a recluse after his wife's death, saying: "When she died, it broke him. She was his whole life." The 58-year-old former lawyer, portrayed as "boring" by critics, gave a "spine-tingling" interview on the ITV show, Morgan said.
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