Starmer has his reset - now he must act fast to sell it to the public

There were two moments at the UK-EU summit where it felt like a corner had truly been turned, and it was because of agrifoods, nor youth mobility, defence or fishing.

- Jessica Elgot

When Keir Starmer said the UK had changed, the most symbolic evidence of that came in a press release from No 10 that set out the terms of the agreement brokered at Lancaster House.

It acknowledged, for the first time, what successive governments have spent years denying - that Brexit has damaged Britain. It laid out the figures: the UK has suffered a "21% drop in exports and 7% drop in imports".

Finally, the charade is over.

And the British public know that. Half of Britons now say the decision to leave the EU was wrong and significant numbers of those who did not vote or were too young to vote think it was the wrong decision. Poll after poll suggests the British public believe the UK is now worse off - although often that stops short of a demand for the UK to rejoin the EU.

Secondly, and equally symbolically, was the acknowledgement that the changes proposed would require a vote in parliament. That confirmation came from Downing Street almost as an afterthought.