Keir Starmer: “This is a big moment for our country.”

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.

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 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’s not just the unimaginable loss of losing their loves ones at football game - a place of joy and human spirit.