KEIR STARMER is counting on a by-election hat-trick on Thursday to propel him into Downing Street next year with an outright Labour majority.
With Tories braced for defeat in Selby, Somerton and Frome, and Boris Johnson’s vacated Uxbridge seat, everything seems to be coming up red roses for nearly-new Labour.
So, on election day 2024, will the last Tory to leave Britain turn out the lights?
Or could we be witnessing Peak Starmer?
Is this a reprise of Tony Blair’s 1997 triumph . . . or a re-run of Neil Kinnock’s 1992 election flop?