The great and principled man of the people, Sir Keir Starmer, is to stand down as an MP. Despite repeatedly insisting that he would remain on the back benches, the former Prime Minister will give up his Holborn and St Pancras seat, triggering yet another by-election. Labour MPs, including the former Labour leader himself, spent ample time whinging that Rishi Sunak would abandon parliament after losing the general election. Sir Keir has beaten him to it.

Writing in the Camden New Journal, the former Prime Minister claimed it was........

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