Keir Starmer: “We will go further to develop a coalition of the willing to defend a deal in Ukraine and to guarantee the peace.”

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.

I go with good grace, I go with a smile, and I go proud of everything we have achieved.

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.

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