If there is a contest, just to be clear with you, then, yes, I will run.
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Starmer's statement on leadership contest.
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I come here today not to take credit for this government or this House, but as prime minister, to put on our national record exactly where the credit belongs, because it belongs to the families and to the campaigners.
In six years, we went from historic defeat in 2019 to historic victory in 2024, and in two years in government I leave the country in better shape than I found it.
And when my brother died of cancer, she reached out to me privately, not across this despatch box, and I thank her for that and the tribute that she’s just made to my wife and children, who mean the world to me.
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.





