‘We’ve got everything in place’: Shabana Mahmood on Labour’s election hopes

Party's national campaigns coordinator was delighted by recent local poll results and lauds Keir Starmer as a problem fixer'

For all that some pundits have tried to present Labour's local elections as middling, Shabana Mahmood is having none of it. Asked how she would have viewed such results for 2023 when she became national campaigns coordinator two years earlier, the response is adamant.

I'd have bitten your arm off," the Birmingham Ladywood MP says without hesitation. I'd have done a sort of, Please God, inshallah, let that be true.'