Keir Starmer has announced he will resign as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party.
Before he announced his resignation, Starmer said he inherited Labour Party that was “politically, financially and morally bankrupt”.
He says he was told “time and time again” that the party was “finished”, but says he “proved those people wrong”.
He says he changed the party by “ripping out the poison of anti-Semitism”.
“Restoring trust on the economy, defence and national security,” he adds.
Starmer says the question his party is asking is whether he is best placed to lead it into the next general election.
He says he has “heard the answer” of his party to that question and “accepts that answer with good grace”.
Every decision he says he has taken has been about “putting the country I love first”.
“I will resign as leader of the Labour Party,” he says.