Sir Keir Starmer made the leap from Leader of the Opposition to Prime Minister in only four years, one of just a handful of politicians to have done so since 1945. Yet the landslide majority that Labour secured under him in July 2024 has been described as “loveless” and his first months in Downing Street have been overshadowed by rows and controversies, turning what should have been a political honeymoon into a period of sustained turbulence.  In this fully revised and updated edition of his 2021 biography of Starmer, Michael Ashcroft traces how he went from schoolboy socialist to...