LONDON 5 Apr (ANA) - Sir Keir Starmer says the government still needs to be asked 'difficult questions' in the fight against coronavirus.

Key workers have been "overlooked and underpaid" and there will have to be a "reckoning" after the coronavirus crisis, the new Labour leader has said.

Sir Keir Starmer told the BBC's Andrew Marr: "They were last and now they've got to be first."

He said another decade of austerity would be a mistake, saying it was "inevitable" that the wealthy would have to pay more.

The 57-year-old won the contest to succeed Jeremy Corbyn on Saturday. 

He defeated Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey in a ballot of party members and other supporters.

Meanwhile, Sir Keir is expected to announce members of his shadow cabinet, saying that it will be "balanced across the party, across the country" and will be diverse.(ANA)

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