Sir Keir Starmer said he had a "mountain to climb" to rebuild the Labour Party from the ashes of its defeat in 2019.
So who is the man who so successfully sold a message of "change"?
Our people and politics correspondent Nick Martin has been speaking to those who know the incoming prime minister best.
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