Keir Starmer: “I promised you a World Cup and I’ve delivered it. I love you all. Everyone but Andy.”

I will go with good grace. I want my country to thrive, and therefore I'll do everything to make sure there's an orderly transition and give my full support to Andy Burnham and the whole of the government.

I think once you’ve been prime minister, it’s important to answer the question: what are you going to do next? Having decided I’m going to concentrate on international affairs, I think it’s right to step down.

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.

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.