Sir Keir Starmer: “Jess Asato is absolutely right in the action that she is taking.”

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.

I’m about to visit His Majesty the King to offer my resignation and close the book on my time as prime minister.

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

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.