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Sir Keir Starmer has admitted he regrets his 'distant' relationship with his late father who 'gave up everything' to look after the Labour leader's ill mother.
Rodney Starmer - known as Rod - was a toolmaker who spent a great deal of time tending to Sir Keir's mother, Josephine, who passed away in 2015.
And the Labour leader's father died in 2018 - two years before his son took up his current role.
Sir Keir, 61, told Sky News his father was 'totally committed' to looking after his ill mother and 'put her above everything else'.
But because he 'invested it all' in Josephine, the 'emotional space was more squeezed' when it came to Sir Keir and his father - which he said he wishes he had rectified before it was too late.
The 'emotional space was more squeezed' when it came to Sir Keir and his father, Rod
Sir Keir Starmer has admitted he regrets his 'distant' relationship with his late father who 'gave up everything' to look after the Labour leader's ill mother
The leader of the opposition said his father, Rod (right), never revealed how proud he was of him. Pictured: Starmer with wife Victoria, mother Jo and father Rod in 2007
The Labour leader's father died in 2018 - two years before his son took up his current role. Sir Keir Starmer is pictured giving an interview when he was a lawyer
Speaking to Sky News, Sir Keir said: 'I probably should have addressed that before he passed.
'And I wish I had - but I didn't.'
He added that he's taken the lessons he learned from that relationship
