Keir Starmer: “What happened to them, and to tens of thousands of mothers, children, and families, should never have happened. It is a…”

It has been a huge honour and privilege to represent the best constituency in the country and to have taken over from Frank Dobson, who was such a great constituency MP and a member of the last Labour government.

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.

Our public services are on the up, with the biggest fall in waiting times for 17 years. Children are being lifted out of poverty every single day.

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