Sir Keir Starmer: “I don’t think we should plunge the country into the chaos of a leadership election.”

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

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.

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