Keir Starmer resigns as prime minister in a statement outside 10 Downing Street – watch live on BBC.
Starmer says after leaving the “biggest job in the country” he will spend more time on “the most important job”.
Keir Starmer resigns as Prime Minister
He says every decision he has made in office has been about “putting the country I love first” and now will focus on ‘the most important job of all being a father and husband to his children and his loving wife’.
Ending his speech full of emotion and in tears after being ousted from a job he loves.
Starmer pledges his support to whoever is next PM
Keir Starmer says he will do everything he can to ensure an orderly handover of power to the UK‘s most powerful job, and will give his successor his full support.
They know, he continues, that they are inheriting a Britain that is stronger and fairer than two years ago.
Starmer then thanks his friends and colleagues who have been by his side for six years, as well as the No 10 staff and the “extraordinary civil service”.