Keir Starmer: “We cannot simply wait for peace.”

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

I will also continue, as I have done for a long time now with others, to work on combating violence against women and girls; that is an issue that matters to me hugely.

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.