Hundreds of miles away in North Yorkshire, Rishi Sunak, who had cancelled a press event on Saturday amid the fallout from his D-day blunder, spent a quiet day in his constituency, nursing his wounds.
The contrast could not be more stark between the Tories' floundering election campaign and the energy around Starmer, with Labour officials unable to believe their luck.
Just over three weeks earlier, before Sunak surprised everybody by announcing a summer election, the Labour leader had launched his "first steps" for government in the Tory-held Essex seat.
"Back then we didn't know the prime minister was about to call the general election, but it's so good he did because the whole country has been longing for this to come," Starmer told the crowd on Sunday. "This is the point where the power goes to you, the voters, to make a choice."
The fact that Starmer has spent so much of the campaign so far in southern seats underlines the scale of Labour's ambition at this election - reaching deep into areas that Labour hasn't held since it was last in power.
"We need to win everywhere.
We lost very badly in 2019 so our strategy has always been that we've got to win everywhere. I want to win everywhere," Starmer said in an interview with the Guardian.
"There are plenty of voters who didn't vote for us before in places like this, you might call the 'blue wall'... who will be prepared to look again at a changed Labour party and say that better aligns with what I care about.
"Quite a number of them, I think, will be dismayed that the party they may have voted for in the past has drifted away from [what] they actually thought they voted for."
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