It feels like the prime minister has to give the speech of his life today.
Those within the Labour Party who want to see him succeed acknowledge that you can't change everything in one speech.
But it is clearly imperative for Sir Keir Starmer to try to calm down a party that is hurting and anxious.
Many Labour MPs have spent the weekend observing the politically scorched earth around them locally – their friends and colleagues in local and devolved government wiped out. There are fraught emotions and there is anger.
And for the last few days now there has been the drip, drip of revolt, with Labour MP after Labour MP coming out publicly to say Starmer has to go.
