Keir Starmer: “We don't say: 'Oh, look, a teenager managed to get a drink somehow, so let's not bother banning drinks from children.'…”

In six and a half years, I took our party from a historic defeat in 2019, changed it so it was fit to face the country and won a landslide general election victory in 2024.

I've always wanted to fight for the people who struggle to be heard and struggle to be seen.

There is now I think a sound footing, a sound foundation, and the party can go on and win a second term, which is what I always thought we could do.

I got into a lot of trouble in a primary school when an eight-year-old encouraged me to do the 6-7 thing and the whole class joined in. It went viral and when I left, the headteacher told me sternly that it was against the school rules.