Keir Starmer

When voters send a message like this, we must reflect and we must respond.

When voters send a message like this, we must reflect and we must respond.

Let me be clear.

These are really tough results.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

And we have lost brilliant Labour representatives, people who put so much into their communities, so much into our party and our movement.

And the voters have sent a message about the pace of change, how they want their lives improved.

I was elected to meet those challenges and I'm not going to walk away from those challenges and plunge the country into chaos.

Did you contemplate that the problem might be you, that you might need to go to help Labour win these seats back?

Did you even contemplate it?

Do you acknowledge it as a conversation even?

The voters have sent a message about the pace of change.

how they want their lives improved.

I was elected to meet those challenges, and I'm not going to walk away from those challenges.

Let me be clear, these are really tough results.

I'm not going to sugarcoat it.

And we have lost brilliant Labour representatives, people who put so much into their communities, so much into our party and our movement.

Although we were right to level with the public about the scale and depth of the challenges we've faced, we didn't do enough to convince them that things will get better, that things will improve.

The hope...

There is also a judgment I made that was wrong.