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Mr Carling said his
in politics was sparked by the social and economic
he saw in the UK. He grew up in what he described as "a very
area" in the north of England. This is an area the Conservative Party had promised to "level up" and turn into a "northern
". However, these lofty
went unkept. Carling said: "I saw a lot of things getting worse around me. I was concerned about shops closing on
high streets that used to be a
hub and are basically now a
." He hopes the newly-elected Labour Party will undo 14 years of Conservative misrule, scandal,
and corruption. Britain's public services are in
and people are worse off than they were 14 years ago.
