Jubilant Labour MPs belt out karaoke hits at drunken conference party

2022-09-28

‘I’m loving Starmer instead’: Jubilant Labour frontbenchers belt out karaoke hits at drunken conference party as they boast of ‘winning big’ at election after Pound meltdown

Labour MPs enjoy a boozy karaoke session at end of their Liverpool conference
They sing ‘I’m loving Starmer instead’ to Robbie Williams’ classic hit ‘Angels’
Sir Keir Starmer declares party is ‘confident’ ahead of next general election

Labour MPs enjoyed a boozy karaoke session last night as their party conference wrapped up with senior figures predicting they would ‘win big’ at the next general election.

Jubilant members of the Labour front bench – including leader Sir Keir Starmer – partied in Liverpool after being buoyed by polling showing they had soared even further ahead of the Tories.

At a bash held at the ‘Revolucion de Cuba’ bar in the city’s Royal Albert Dock, senior MPs belted out classics by Bon Jovi and Journey.

The lyrics to ‘Angels’ by Robbie Williams were even adapted to declare: ‘I’m loving Starmer instead’.

Sir Keir addressed the assembled MPs, activists and journalists at the party, hosted by the Daily Mirror, to tell them Labour was ‘confident’ with less than two-and-a-half years until the next general election is due.

Labour’s conference this year has taken place amid the meltdown in the Pound following Chancellor Kwasi Kwarteng’s tax-cutting mini-Budget last week.

Sir Keir and his party’s front bench have seized on the currency turmoil to claim they – rather than the Conservatives – are now the party of ‘sound money’.

Shadow health secretary Wes Streeting belted out ‘Angels’ by Robbie Williams but adapted the lyrics to declare: ‘I’m loving Starmer instead’

Mr Streeting was one of a number of Labour frontbenchers spotted partying in Liverpool at the end of the party’s conference

With one poll showing Labour are now 17 points ahead of the Tories, one shadow cabinet minister told MailOnline they now expect to ‘win big’ at the next election and gloated the Conservatives are ‘f***ed’ in the Red Wall.

At last night’s bash, Labour deputy leader Angela Rayner and shadow work and pensions secretary Jonathan Ashworth teamed up to sing Journey’s ‘Don’t Stop Believin” as a duet.

Lisa Nandy, the party’s shadow Levelling Up secretary, belted out Bon Jovi’s ‘Livin’ On A Prayer’ with others. And shadow health secretary Wes Streeting took on ‘Angels’.

He adapted the lyrics to tell the crowd ‘Keir won’t forsake me’ and ‘I’m loving Starmer instead’.

There were signs that Mr Streeting’s night of partying had had an impact today, when he mistakenly told the conference during his keynote speech that cancer patients had been waiting ’15 years’ for an ambulance.

He had earlier raised the case of David Wakeley, an 87-year-old pensioner with cancer, who had been foreced to shelter under a makeshift tent where he’d fallen and suffered fractured ribs and a fractured pelvis.

‘He was forced to wait 15 hours for an ambulance. This is the state of the NHS in Tory Britain and it is an absolute disgrace,’ Mr Streeting told Labour members at the beginning of his speech, before his slip-up.

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