His speech had some echoes of the famous Tony Blair 1997 speech.
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You’ll remember that of course it had the famous line ‘a new dawn has broken has it not’.
But if you were expecting those same sort of party scenes we saw in 1997, champagne corks popping, shadow cabinet ministers dancing on the tables, you didn’t get any of that last night.
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It was quite sedate, it was very orchestrated.
The party was actually pretty clear that the activists came in about 10 minutes because Keir Starmer gave his speech.
He addressed them, they waved their placards, then everybody went home.
People have talked about Keir being boring and it was a bit of a boring victory party. There was some frontbenchers there, though not many.
The other big story of the night is Nigel’s election and that big Reform insurgency and that’s gonna be trouble not just for the Tories, as it was last night, it’s going to be huge trouble for Labour and for Keir Starmer himself.
It was lots of smiling young staffers in their twenties, at times it looked more like a GAP advert than a big Labour celebration.
Keir was very methodical, very business-like. He did walk on stage holding hands with his wife Victoria, they shared a hug, they kissed. That was very sweet.
Speech delivered, no champagne out, he was back in the car on his way home to get some rest ahead of his big day today meeting the king and getting his new job.
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