Keir Starmer: “I recognise that I’ve got to turn things around. We had a very bad set of elections.”

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

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 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.