Now he’s got ‘a foot in the door’ can Keir Starmer keep going?

Labour leader, Keir Starmer, and his wife Victoria arrive to vote in London in last week’s local elections. Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA

Hours after he stepped off stage with his political future in the balance, Keir Starmer decompressed with some of his closest friends and advisers for beers and prosecco in the garden of his former chief of staff, Jenny Chapman.

“He looked better than he had in ages,” one said. “Sometimes you just have to let go.”