内容摘要：Lee has seized this opportunity to hoover up centrist votes. He has shifted his policies to the right, and even claimed his left-leaning party is, in fact, conservative.

Lee has seized this opportunity to hoover up centrist votes. He has shifted his policies to the right, and even claimed his left-leaning party is, in fact, conservative.

Phil Beard, 72, says he has spent "many, many, many thousands of pounds" travelling the world to watch the singer perform at about 75 gigs since 1981.On meeting the star at a US book-signing in 2016, he urged him to consider playing in his home city of Liverpool. He also encouraged Springsteen's E Street Band guitarist Stevie Van Zandt at two meetings, with the latter having since performed at the city's Cavern Club.

Mr Beard has now booked tickets for both of Springsteen's concerts at Anfield stadium on Wednesday and Saturday.Mr Beard says he became "hooked" on the star's rock music, after first hearing it in 1976.He said he found the music "resonates" because of "the story in the songs - his truthfulness, the power, the rock and roll".

Along with his wife Eileen, he watched all of Springsteen's three gigs in Manchester last month.And that's on top of about 30 concerts across North America – including in Nashville and Memphis – plus many more in Europe.

Mr Beard says he has been a big music fan since the age of 10, when he would listen to the BBC radio show Pick of the Pops with his mother.

He admired The Beatles and US singer Roy Orbison but admits to initially being "turned off by the hype" around New Jersey singer-songwriter Springsteen, who first released an album in 1973.President Volodymyr Zelensky said 117 drones were used in the so-called "Spider's Web" operation by the SBU security service, striking "34% of [Russia's] strategic cruise missile carriers".

SBU sources told BBC News it took a year-and-a-half to organise the strikes.Russia confirmed Ukrainian attacks in five regions, calling them a "terrorist act".

The attacks come as Russian and Ukrainian negotiators are heading to Istanbul, Turkey, for a second round of peace talks on Monday.The talks are expected to start around 13:00 local time (10:00 GMT) at the Ciragan Palace.