They've won the election, now the hard yards begin, with a daunting in-tray for the new government. With the economy struggling after COVID, public services overwhelmed and instability abroad, Labour know it's a difficult inheritance.
On the global stage within days Within days, the new prime minister heads to NATO's 75th-anniversary summit in Washington - still in the glow of victory. Kim Darroch, former ambassador to Washington, said: 'If he gets the sort of majority the opinion polls are predicting then he'll be mobbed - everyone will want to talk to him. Everyone will want to have a selfie with him, because that's the photograph that will appear on their newspapers the next day.