Nothing so became Keir Starmer’s premiership as his leaving of it. Farewell remarks outside Downing Street, unpunctuated by the odious Steve Bray; a brief goodbye in Buckingham Palace, before the King welcomed his fourth new prime minister in four years; then to the pub to drown his sorrows with Rachel Reeves, leaving Andy Burnham and

Keir Starmer is departing just two years after winning an extraordinary election landslide, leaving Mr Burnham to become the country's seventh PM in a decade.

The talks in London will formally conclude a long fight within the Labour Party to replace Keir Starmer after growing discontent over his leadership.