Keir Starmer laid out his plans for Labour's future today - in an astonishing 14,000 essay.
The 35-page opus sets out plans for the party to be patriotic and a 'partner to private enterprise' in what appears to be an attempt to draw a line under the party's leftward spiral under Jeremy Corbyn.
He attacks infighting that has dogged the opposition in the past and demanded it be more future-focused - while learning from the reforming Governments of Clement Attlee in 1945 and Tony Blair in 1997.
The document is largely a musing on the state of the party and the nation, split between the past, the present and the future.
But it also sets out 10 principles which he claims would form the basis of a new contract between Labour and the British people.
But his decision to spend some not inconsiderable time on the document for the Fabian Society when he could have been publicly taking on Boris Johnson, has been met with criticism from within Labour.
One party figure from the moderate wing told MailOnline the 35-page pamphlet was a 'waste of time' and normal people would not engage with the content.
'If ordinary voters suspected he was a weirdo before, now they know he is,' they said, adding gloomily: 'He'd be gone if he was leading the Tories, but there's no-one else.'
Former Cabinet minister Lord Adonis said: 'When you haven't got anything new to say, it's best not to say it in 14,000 words.'
However Oliver Dowden, Conservative Party co-chairman, said: 'If this is Starmer's 'big vision' then he should have gone to Specsavers.
'Labour are talking to themselves about themselves. They're all essays and no action.'
Here we set out the key points of the document:
He attacks infighting that has dogged the opposition in the past and demanded it be more future-focused - while learning from the reforming Governments of Clement Attlee in 1945 and Tony Blair in 1997.
The 35-page opus sets out plans for the party to be patriotic and a 'partner to private enterprise' in what appears to be an attempt to draw a line under the party's leftward spiral under Jeremy Corbyn.
Ten steps to power?
Cutting ties with the broad nationalisation policies that belittled ex-Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn's previous election bids, Sir Keir explained he wants his party to 'once again be Britain's bricks and mortar'.
Sir Keir said Labour cannot 'wait around for the public to decide we are right' and must instead grasp the opportunities the current political atmosphere provides.
The paper ends with a series of 10 principles which steer the party very much towards the centre ground.
At its heart is what he has dubbed a 'contribution society', where everyone has a part to play.
Most eye-catching perhaps is the claim 'The role of government is to be a partner to private enterprise, not stifle it'.
Under Jeremy Corbyn Labour ran on an election manifesto in 2019 that pledged to 'bring rail, mail, water and energy' and 'the broadband-relevant parts of BT' into public ownership.
Facing claims about a lack of patriotism under the previous regime, the pledges also include 'We are proudly patriotic but we reject the divisiveness of nationalism'.
Elsewhere he writes: 'Nationalists like to portray themselves as patriots. But patriotism and
