Keir Starmer: “keep the pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to back a ceasefire in Ukraine, hailing Ukraine as the party of…”

I will now focus on other things and that will be international affairs including defence, security, trade and technology in a fast-changing world.

I will also continue, as I have done for a long time now with others, to work on combating violence against women and girls; that is an issue that matters to me hugely.

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.

Ukraine in many senses is the defining cause of our time because this is a fight about the values of democracy and freedom that are hugely important to the United Kingdom.