Keir Starmer: “On the grooming gangs inquiry, it should go wherever the evidence takes it.”

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.

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.

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 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.