Sir Keir Starmer: “But Jess is right, she's a parliamentarian, and I'm 100% behind the action that she has taken.”

So, as I now pass the baton to Andy Burnham, I wish him every success. He has my full support.

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.

For all the focus on individuals, politics will always be a team sport, and the changes we’ve delivered for our country and our party belong to everyone who has fought for them.

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.