Sir Keir Starmer: “The one thing we've got to avoid doing is plunging our party and our country into chaos by turning on each other and…”

I’m proud to hand over the party in good shape to Andy Burnham, and hand over the country in good shape to Andy Burnham.

I thank the British people for the opportunity to serve. I go with good grace. I go with a smile, and I go proud of everything that we have achieved.

It's not just the size of your army, it's how you fight a modern conflict.

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.