Sir Keir Starmer: “If there is a contest, yes I will run. I will stand and I have said repeatedly I am not going to walk away from that.”

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

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.

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.

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.