Keir Starmer: “what I was elected to do, which is to serve my country”

I got into a lot of trouble in a primary school when an eight-year-old encouraged me to do the 6-7 thing and the whole class joined in. It went viral and when I left, the headteacher told me sternly that it was against the school rules.

I came into politics in 2015 to improve the lives of millions of people.

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.

We put the biggest investment into defence and security, and our international standing has been restored.