‘It’s been a good week’: Labour buoyed up by slick reshuffle and Tory woes

Party off to promising start to new parliamentary term but knows it cannot be complacent

In the evening sunshine on the House of Commons terrace on Wednesday, Keir Starmer took some of his closest aides for a drink. Just three days into the new parliamentary session, and with a successful reshuffle under their belts, they were upbeat.

Earlier at prime minister's questions, the Labour leader had likened Rishi Sunak's government to a group of cowboy builders" over the schools concrete crisis. With the government on the back foot, Labour aides couldn't believe their luck.