After Labour's hammering in the 2019 General Election, no one expected Starmer to be walking into Downing Street as prime minister today, just five years on.
was first elected as party leader, one senior Conservative adviser warned Boris Johnson that this new opposition figure would almost certainly be "underestimated".
What I have found is a man as likely to be called "deeply caring" by his staff and friends as "utterly ruthless"; a politician with sharp and relentless determination; a leader willing to take any decision if convinced it would hand his Labour party a strategic advantage. They also point to the changes he has made within the party, including calling the former general secretary Jennie Formby on day one of his leadership and asking her to resign.
In 2021, he forced through rule changes to prevent another Corbynite challenging for the leadership in the future despite being told that the predicted margin of victory could be as small as one vote. Labour's vote share is down in its safest seats and the issue with Muslim voters is a serious one. I've written before that the loss of trust amongThis is something like a, in my view. Another group of voters who have backed Labour unquestionably for years and who are now unsure that it is benefiting them. Labour knows this loss of trust long pre-dates Gaza and is not only about foreign policy.
Will Starmer govern more radically than he has campaigned? He will certainly be under pressure to do so, with an inflated Labour party, that will be hard to control even if it does draw more new members from his more centrist part of the party.
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