Keir Starmer: “I am ready and willing to put British troops on the ground in Ukraine to enforce a peace deal if necessary.”

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.

Since then, it has been the privilege of my life to serve you and this great country as Prime Minister, and I am confident that Britain is now stronger and fairer than it was two years ago.

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.