Keir Starmer resigns as British prime minister

Sir Keir Starmer has announced to resign as prime minister and leader of the Labour Party, in a statement outside 10 Downing Street. HumanVoice.news has learnt from BBC this morning.

Prime minister has already talked with The King of United Kingdom over phone and informed his stepping down decision from his role in the morning when The King was at Highgrove - his estate in Gloucestershire.

Mr. Starmar says every decision he has made in office has been about "putting the country I love first"

Mr. Starmer thanks his "fantastic wife, Vic", expressing her as a "rock". He also expresses that he would be the "best dad I can to my beautiful children, who are my pride and joy". He has added that 
after leaving the "biggest job in the country" he will spend more time on "the most important job". He hugs his wife before heading back inside No 10.

He has asked the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party to set out a timetable with nominations opening for the leadership on 9 July, and completed by the summer recess.

This will mean a new leader is in place before parliament returns in September. He says. Until then he will remain in post as prime minister, 

Starmer says the question his party is asking is whether he is best placed to lead it into the next general election. However, Mr. Starmer says, "I will resign as leader of the Labour Party"

He says he has "heard the answer" of his party to that question and "accepts that answer with good grace". 

Before he announced his resignation, Starmer said he inherited Labour Party that was "politically, financially and morally bankrupt".

He says he was told "time and time again" that the party was "finished", but says he "proved those people wrong". He says he changed the party by "ripping out the poison of anti-Semitism".
"Restoring trust on the economy, defence and national security," he adds.

Mr. Starmer has said, remembering his entering Downing street two years ago, the proudest moment of my life. He says he came into politics for the chance to change the lives of millions of people for the better.