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Starmer can help Britain redeem itself

With a towering majority, a well-disciplined team and a ruthless instinct for power, Starmer can restore some of the respect the Tories destroyed

Adrian WooldridgeBloomberg columist

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Ever since Rishi Sunak’s rain-sodden announcement to call a general election on July 4, one question has hung over British politics: will Labour win by a landslide or just a regular majority?

Labour Party leader Sir Keir Starmer takes charge at a 5am speech on Friday morning. AP

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Adrian Wooldridge is the global business columnist for Bloomberg Opinion. A former writer at the Economist, he is author of “The Aristocracy of Talent: How Meritocracy Made the Modern World.”

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