For much of the last three years since Keir Starmer took over as Labour leader, the party’s approach has been characterised by a caution that, when it finally took the lead in the polls, morphed into warnings about complacency.
After suffering its worst electoral defeat in more than 80 years in 2019, some MPs were so demoralised they questioned whether Labour would ever make it back to power in their working lifetimes.
