“I will run, I will stand,” if there is a Labour leadership contest, Starmer said. “I’ve said repeatedly I’m not going to walk away from that.”

I will not walk away from my premiership and will fight any leadership contest that comes about.

The one thing we’ve got to avoid doing is plunging our party and our country into chaos by turning on each other and tearing apart our party

I’m not going to walk away

Yes, I will run, I will stand.

Let's pull together as a party and a movement. The one thing we've got to avoid doing is plunging our party and our country into chaos by turning on each other and tearing apart our party and our movement. That has never worked. That's…

what I was elected to do, which is to serve my country

It’s really important, it’s a huge by-election, one of the biggest by-elections we’ll ever run. It is really important that we maintain that Labour mayoralty, and that we take Reform on.

Let’s pull together as a party and a movement. The one thing we’ve got to avoid doing is plunging our party and our country into chaos by turning on each other and tearing apart our party and our movement.

In relation to the wider question, look, there are many actors who want to divide our country and to cause conflict in our country.

This is the fight in politics at the moment. We should relish the opportunity to take the fight to Reform and give them a hiding in Manchester, and frankly, expose them for who they are: divisive, inward, wanting to divide our country, the…

I'm here (at the G7) concentrating on that. That's the right thing to do, and I think most people would say there's always political chatter. We don't want our Prime Minister getting involved in that.