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Introduction
Jenny Chapman, Labour MP for Darlington, was angry and upset. A few days earlier she'd watched her party leader respond to the Russian Novachok poisoning in Salisbury - an actual chemical weapon attack on British soil. She picked up the phone to a fellow MP and close colleague: 'I think you should stand for Labour leader' Gear Starmer said yes; they would hold secret meetings every Monday morning in Jenny Chapman's house with a select number of trusted colleagues. By December 2019, after the worst election defeat in Labour's recent history, Starmer's moment would arrive.