Sir Keir Starmer: “Every PM knows when they take up the torch, the day will come when they have to pass it on. This is the end of my…”

Yet the thing I will always take away with me – the most humbling aspect of this job – is the front-row seat you get to witness the greatest things of this country in action.

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

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.

And so, under this attack, it is vital that we remember the greatness of the Britain all around us.