Labour are ahead in the polls, but leader Keir Starmer has his work cut out, writes Laura Kuenssberg.
Just as the Tories have chaotically been going about the business of eroding their credibility, Keir Starmer has, piece by piece, been deadly serious about rebuilding Labour's.
Legal disputes and resentments simmer, but there's no question it is a different party, a more focused and efficient machine with a different character and far less internal strife. Even in the darkest days of Theresa May, when sometimes it felt like the government might not last the day, Labour under Jeremy Corbyn only edged slightly ahead.
There are always calls from the backbenches for him to "get off the sidelines", as one senior MP bemoans, calling for urgency, clarity, a stronger sense of standing up for those suffering in this tough winter.
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