Sir Keir Starmer

It’s the end of my journey in politics. I’m very clear about that.

We're in a more dangerous and volatile world than we've been in for probably most of my lifetime.

Staff and neighbours must be respected but the principle to let pubs stay open so the country can gather is right

Allowing pubs to stay open for England's Mexico World Cup showdown is common sense

I wanted to do that with Vic, and that's what I did.

There's often this discussion - what's the right balance between dealing with international affairs and dealing with domestic affairs? They're one and the same thing.

Whoever's my successor is going to face the same global conflict.

Taking the decision that your political career is over, it is an intensely personal matter, or at least it was for me.

I grappled with what was the best thing to do for me, for the country, for the government.

Sir Keir Starmer unveiled the long-awaited DIP, with a promise to increase defence spending by £15bn.

What happened to tens of thousands of mothers, children and families should never have happened.

Labour is building new hospitals, and the honourable gentleman is standing up for golf courses...I can't think of anything more Lib Dem.

But his approach has been on the one hand to demand a new hospital, and then oppose actually building it.

His hospital, thanks to Labour investment, is at the front of the queue.

Musk of using his platform to whip up division in the UK over the murder of student Henry Nowak last month.

They were practices embedded within systems across local authorities, across voluntary and faith-based institutions, and in health and social care services.

Mothers – many young, vulnerable, and without support – were coerced, bullied or misled into feeling they had no choice but to have their children taken from them.

It is a stain on our history.

The shame was never yours, the shame is ours.

I will depart the stage…knowing we have left this country in a better state than we got it.

Takes us to 4.2% under that commitment

We are deeply and profoundly sorry to the mothers who were told they were unfit, who were prevented from caring for the children they desperately wanted to help and to keep, and who have carried this loss for decades.

Mothers, many young, vulnerable, and without support were coerced, bullied, or misled into feeling that they had no choice but to have their children taken away from them. What a thing to do.

The shame is not yours. The shame was never yours. The shame is ours.

All people who know what is in the plan, and welcome it. Contrast that with their record in government, because they hollowed out the armed forces.