Keir Starmer: “I’m going to be professional, I’m going to have foremost in my mind a sense of service and duty that has driven me as…”

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.

It’s work I started before I became an MP and it’s work I’m keen to continue after I’m an MP.

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

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.