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From football to his party to the country, the new UK leader has always been focused on winning

First light was breaking over the Thames as Britain’s new prime minister walked into the cavernous Turbine Hall of Tate Modern at 5am on Friday. Sir Keir Starmer looked out at the sea of relief on the faces of Labour activists and declared: “We can look forward again, walk into the morning.

McFadden said Starmer, whose previous costly promises to scrap university tuition fees or to bring private companies back under state control were ditched, “fully bought in” to the need for an iron grip on tax and spend policies. “The alternative is that the Tories add up a massive bill for all the things you’ve promised, scares the electorate, then Labour loses,” he says.

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