To persuade voters the party has changed, Keir Starmer will also need his shadow cabinet to share the heavy lifting, writes Andrew Grice
because it diagnoses that Labour’s brand is tarnished; changing the frontman will not be enough. He has never doubted the size of the proverbial “mountain” he has to climb, but it is painted in the starkest terms: no party has ever increased its number of Commons seats by 60 per cent, as Labour needs to do to win next time.
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