For once, Starmer’s premiership seems energised – the task will be building this into a campaign for next year’s crucial local elections, says Guardian columnist Andy Beckett

The article as a whole is more pessimistic than the headline suggests! Ends on this note:

But after 14 years of often disastrous Tory government, and with many voters still wanting a broadly left-of-centre country, squeezing back in for a second term would not be a triumph for Labour.