What a brutish business politics is. Sir Keir accepted his fate with reluctant grace but towards the end the understated, bitten-back Englishness of it all became a little too much.

Keir Starmer is speaking outside of Downing Street after Andy Burnham won the by-election on Friday.

There was no sense of relief. A certain sadness fell over his team

Sir Keir Starmer fought back tears as he announced his resignation as prime minister. Sir Keir, who described being prime minister as the “proudest moment of my life” appeared…

Keir Starmer looked visibly emotional as he walked up to the lectern in Downing Street this morning to resign as PM

Sir Keir Starmer stepped out of Downing Street accompanied by his wife Victoria to cheers and applause from his team

Now that the end has come for Keir Starmer, history can get to work, analysing and anatomising his failures. The central question for posterity: how did a politician win a huge…

As the UK PM gave a tearful goodbye at 10 Downing Street, Starmer thanked his family, friends, colleagues and the “extraordinary” staff at Downing Street. | World News

As Sir Keir Starmer made a dignified exit, many watching his speech outside no10 were distracted by a song being played as he spoke from the Downing Street gates

Keir Starmer has resigned as Prime Minister after admitting Labour MPs do not think he is 'best placed' to lead Labour into the next general election - read his resignation speech…

The prime minister’s statement was about preserving his dignity – but became a rare display of emotion from a leader who the public have struggled to warm to, writes political…

What a brutish business politics is. Sir Keir accepted his fate with reluctant grace but towards the end the understated, bitten-back Englishness of it all became a little too…

Dutiful rather than dynamic, Keir Starmer was elected to be a safe pair of hands after years of chaos under Britain’s Conservatives. His term ended less than two years later amid…

The PM is another butterfly broken on the wheel of the public gaze, not quite ready to accept his own limitations

'Teary Keir Starmer’s enforced abdication and grinning Andy Burnham’s looming coronation perfectly illustrate why politics is a tough, rough, unforgiving, cruel trade with little…