Keir Starmer: “The acts of violence and arson that followed are totally unjustified.”

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.

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.

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

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.