Labour leader Sir Keir has been given, in the eyes of many, a political blank cheque from which he will be expected to enact a promise of change.
In the last few hours, this country has witnessed a peaceful political revolution and Sir Keir Starmer will begin work as prime minister after a landslide which seemed inconceivable barely three years ago. From today, and for the next five years, our 58th prime minister will have a total command of the Commons, after a result in line with Tony Blair's historic Labour victory of 1997 - which at time of writing looks like a majority just shy of 170.
It is a peculiar landslide when two expected cabinet members - Jonathan Ashworth and Thangam Debbonaire - both lose their seats to campaigns on their left, to an independent and the Greens respectively. Instead it is the collapse of the Tories, and the rise of Reform, that in so many cases has handed Labour its chance in parts of the country it has never done well in before.
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