In his final PMQs the prime minister offers Andy Burnham – and the England team – his full support

Keir Starmer was cheered into the chamber for the weekly set-piece, and the Speaker praised 'his public service, his international leadership... his steadfast support for Ukraine'.

Keir Starmer is giving his swan song at PMQs after holding one final Cabinet meeting, with his Downing Street exit looming on Monday.

Keir Starmer will answer questions from lawmakers in the House of Commons for the last time Wednesday before leaving office next week.

The outgoing Labour leader will have final talks with his senior ministers in No 10 before taking his last PMQs

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Keir Starmer has answered questions from lawmakers in the House of Commons for the last time before leaving the British prime minister's office next week

In an emotional session that saw many MPs in tears, as well as advisers in the public gallery, Mr Starmer bowed out with warm applause from both Labour MPs and some Liberal…

Keir Starmer managed a dignified and emotional departure today, and was helped along by an upbeat and relatively friendly Kemi Badenoch

In his final PMQs the prime minister offers Andy Burnham – and the England team – his full support

Outgoing UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Wednesday pledged his "wholehearted support" to his successor as he prepares to hand over to premier-in-waiting Andy Burnham.

The prime minister, who steps down next week, says he is leaving Britain ‘in better shape than I found it’.

Outgoing leader says Britain is stronger as he hands power to Andy Burnham

Sir Keir Starmer has left the House of Commons for the final time as prime minister after just over two years in office. The outgoing PM took office on 5 July, 2024, ending 14…

In a rare moment in the Commons chamber, party rivalries were largely set aside for Keir Starmer ’s final appearance at the despatch box at Prime Minister's Questions

Sir Keir Starmer exited his final PMQs as prime minister and Labour leader to a standing ovation. Last month, Sir Keir resigned after almost two years in power, following recent…

Boxes of Kleenex to the stage door, Norman. Sir Keir Starmer's final PMQs was a blubfest, a three-hanky affair, a display of guilty sentimentalism as bad as Macbeth's distress at…

The prime minister delivered a memorable closing act as the curtain fell on his last PMQs, marking the end of an era

Andy Burnham, who is set to formally replace Starmer on Monday, will become the UK’s seventh prime minister in a decade.

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