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Labour was plunged into a new ‘hubris’ row amid hopes that Sir Keir Starmer could eclipse Sir Tony Blair and win the next four General Elections.

Shadow Health Secretary Wes Streeting astonished even party colleagues last week with his comments in an interview with the LabourList website.

Mr Streeting said: ‘If we get the first term right, we’ll get a second term, potentially even a third and under Keir’s leadership, why not go for the fourth?’

That would put him ahead of even Sir Tony, who won three successive election victories for Labour.

Last night, Mr Streeting’s allies denied he was being over-confident by highlighting Rishi Sunak’s boast last week that he would still be Prime Minister after the General Election despite this month’s disastrous local council polls.