Keir Starmer: “I am pleased to appoint Dan Jarvis as Defence Secretary as we strengthen our armed forces and meet the growing threats…”

It’s work I started before I became an MP and it’s work I’m keen to continue after I’m an MP.

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 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.