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Keir Starmer interview; ENGLAND: West Midlands: Wolverhampton:INTSir Keir Starmer MP (Prime Minister) interview SOTQ: THIS IS YOUR LOCAL ELECTIONS LAUNCH, BUT YOU'RE LANGUISHING IN THE POLLS / HOW BAD WILL THE RESULTS BE IN EARLY MAY- Well, you've seen the energy in the room here / our candidates, our members are really geared up for this / we're going to go out there and fight for every vote / we know we need to earn every vote / we go into the battle in good spirits, but of course the backdrop is a war on two fronts and so people will be looking at Labour for leadership and being absolutely clear that we're not getting dragged into that war / we will of course defend ourselves, our allies and that we do know that the cost of living is the issue that people worry about most / so we go in in good spirits / we go in against an uncertain backdrop globally / but I think that if we can show our values, our positivity, what we have done and what we will do, then as I say, no vote is being cast yet every vote is there to be entered / we need to go out and earn itQ: TODAY YOU'RE HOSTING A SUMMIT FOR ENERGY SHIPPING AND INSURANCE COMPANIES / WHAT DO YOU WANT FROM THAT, ARE YOU LOOKING AT FUEL RATIONING LIKE THEY ARE IN IRELAND, GERMANY, SPAIN, AUSTRALIA, OR WHERE THEY'RE ALSO LOOKING AT CUTTING FUEL DUTY / WHAT REASSURANCE CAN YOU GIVE THAT THE PUMPS WON'T RUN DRY THIS SUMMER- Well, we're bringing together the shipping sector, insurance and energy because obviously that's a focus of concern / a lot of discussion about the Straits of Hormuz and what we can do to get the Straits open, which is the single most effective way to bring energy prices down / but a wide-ranging discussion; it'll then feed in, I will have a COBRA tomorrow, another COBRA to look at the economic impacts of the war and making sure that everything that we need to have in place, everything is monitored and audited properly / so this will feed into that tomorrow, but it would be a very goo...