British prime minister Keir Starmer announced he will “resign as leader of the Labour Party,” the BBC reports.
Starmer said the question his party is asking is whether he is best placed to lead it into the next general election.
He said he has “heard the answer” of his party to that question and “accepts that answer with good grace.”
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