Fionnán Sheahan: UK political world turned upside down again, as Keir Starmer transforms Labour in just five years

Labour leader Keir Starmer has been going it alone on the campaign trail. Photo: Reuters

Fionnán Sheahan in Hackney, London

Up on the balcony of the upmarket Kensington Town Hall for the election count five years ago, it seemed as if the die was cast in UK politics for a decade at least.

Boris Johnson had romped home on the back of promising to ‘Get Brexit Done’ and smashed the ‘red wall’ of Labour seats to secure a whopping majority.