Keir Starmer

“better shape than I found it”

“I will remain in post as prime minister until the contest is complete. And I will do everything I can to ensure an orderly handover of power.”

“I have spoken to his majesty the king this morning to inform him of my decision,”

“The question my party is asking now is whether I am best placed to lead us into the next general election. I have heard the answer of my parliamentary party to that question, and I accept that answer with good grace,”

“I'll be sitting in this seat by 2027,”

“We will see material change in the first term of a Labour government but we are talking about a decade of national renewal and I intend to lead from the front.”

“But in the end the politics of easy answers isn’t right for our country because easy answers don’t change things for the better. All the populist right has to offer are supposedly easy answers that don’t actually materialize into change.”

“I think it’s really important to put this into context: This is what the Ukrainian people face every single day and that is the price that they are paying,”

“it's not just not fair, it's not growing.”

“I don't pick heroes from history”

“I know traditionally Labour leaders might have said, 'it's the tax lever I can't wait to get my hands on' - that's not the case as far as I'm concerned because all of my focus is on growing our economy”

“what we can have is a serious plan for growth - and we can start that on day one.”

“The biggest problem in the last 14 years is that we've had too much flatlining in relation to our economy,”