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Sir Keir Starmer: “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…”

On the recordJuly 26, 2026
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.
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Sir Keir Starmer

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Reflecting on his tenure as Prime Minister.

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