Sir Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister, stating in an emotional address outside 10 Downing Street that he had accepted the questions being asked by the party “with good grace”.
Nominations for a new leader will open on 9 July and will be completed by the summer recess. He will continue to lead the country until the new leader is installed in September.
Sir Keir, who swept into office with a landslide victory two years ago, said he had inherited a Labour Party that was “politically, financially and morally bankrupt”. He was told “time and time again” that the party was “finished”, but saie he “proved those people wrong”.
“Walking up Downing Street two years ago was the proudest moment of my life, he said. He says he came into politics for the chance to change the lives of millions of people for the better.
He listed his achievements, perhaps to remind those who have toppled him of what they may have overlooked in demanding his departure.
These included “restoring trust in the economy, defence and national security,”
He said the question his party is asking is whether he is best placed to lead it into the next general election. He said he “accepts that answer with good grace…I will resign as leader of the Labour Party.”
As he finished his speech he hugged his wife Lady Victoria who came across to greet him at the lectern and they posed sullen-faced at the door before returning inside.
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