Labour leadership rivals have stressed the need to win back voters' trust in the wake of the party's catastrophic election defeat
Setting out her stall, she told Sky News:"We need someone who can take on Boris Johnson, who can stand up against his lies and can be trusted by the public and can reach and talk to the public so we can win another election.
"That is our only job, to get the country to trust us again so that we can govern and make people' lives better." "Trust - trust was the issue, not the radicalism, not the deeper fundamental change we were promising, but trust," she told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday programme.
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