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.

RECAP: Sir Keir Starmer has announced he is stepping down as Prime Minister after accepting that MPs no longer believe he is the right person to lead the party into the next…