Keir Starmer: “I will deliver an unprecedented increase in defence spending.”

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.

I am about to visit His Majesty the King to offer my resignation and close the book on my time as Prime Minister. My work is done.

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