Keir Starmer: “My position on the matter is not vanity, not stubbornness.”

I had a meeting with him to tell him that in this country we will stand with him and Ukraine, and I didn’t let him leave alone.

It has been a huge honour and privilege to represent the best constituency in the country and to have taken over from Frank Dobson, who was such a great constituency MP and a member of the last Labour government.

I think the tide is turning, has turned, and I'm sure they will go on and win this.

I am about to visit His Majesty the King to offer my resignation and close the book on my time as Prime Minister. My work is done.