Keir Starmer: “By any measure, this is a huge historic shift for our nation and a legacy in which I take pride.”

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.

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

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