Keir Starmer: “We’re scaling up our work. We are accelerating efforts to evacuate children from Gaza who need critical medical…”

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

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.

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.

They have been resolute in their support for me, firstly in becoming an MP and then becoming the leader of Labour party and then as prime minister.