'He's a decent man but he failed on the big stuff,' Davey says of Starmer as Westminster reacts to PM's resignation

We have ended our live coverage of Sir Keir Starmer's resignation.

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Nick Clegg has said Brexit, which was 10 years ago today, has played a big part in the high turnover of prime ministers we have seen in recent years. 

He told LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast: "Who would have thought that the last government that actually was sort of stable for any duration of time was a coalition government composed of two parties? 

"I remember when David Cameron and I formed the coalition in 2010, people were safely predicting it would sort of collapse by summer, and yet it lasted for half a decade, which seemed like an unimaginably long period of time when you consider what we've had - Johnson, Sunak, Truss, May, and now Starmer since then. 

"I don't think Brexit's probably the only reason. I suspect there are a bunch of other reasons. 

"But I do think it's one of the biggest drivers. 

"Because in a sense, ever since the country took that decision by a sort of wafer-thin majority, but nonetheless took that decision, and then a particularly hard Brexit was implemented, it's as if no one really wants to talk about the elephant in the room. 

"I mean, Brexit clearly is going very badly."

Paymaster General Nick Thomas-Symonds has praised Sir Keir Starmer for his "very dignified statement" yesterday. 

He said Sir Keir was the right person to lead the party from 2019, but he is not the person to take them into the next election.

Mr Thomas-Symonds came out in support of Andy Burnham, saying he is best placed to defeat Reform. 

He said: "I'm supporting him for two reasons. 

"Number one, I think I'm looking for someone with the track record of delivery that he's shown as the Mayor of Greater Manchester.

"But second, [someone] who is best placed to defeat Reform.

"And I think he's shown that in Makerfield in the last week."

Sir Ed Davey has told LBC's Nick Ferrari at Breakfast that Sir Keir Starmer was a bit of a "disappointment" who didn't deliver. 

He said: "We were prepared to give him the benefit of the doubt to start off with, but very quickly, as he made loads of mistakes— the winter fuel allowance, employers' National Insurance contributions, and his major mistake getting so close to Donald Trump— we were the most critical of him. 

"So he is a decent man, I think, but he didn't deliver."

Sir Ed continued to say Sir Keir failed on the big stuff. 

The Liberal Democrat leader noted some things the Prime Minister did well, such as rolling out free school meals, going hard on solar power, and rightfully not backing Donald Trump in the "idiotic" war with Iran.

However, he said, Sir Keir ultimately failed on the big stuff. 

Sir Ed noted getting the economy going and sorting out our relationship with Europe as examples of Sir Keir's failures. 

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We will be bringing you all the latest reaction and fallout following Sir Keir Starmer's resignation yesterday. 

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Lady Starmer thanked Downing Street staff at drinks in the No 10 garden on Monday evening, telling them she was “personally really grateful” for their support.

Sir Keir Starmer’s wife Victoria said: “I just wanted to say thank you from me.

“I obviously love Keir and support him as much as I can, but there’s only so much I could do, and it’s you guys who gave that support day in, day out, and I am personally really grateful for that. So, thank you all.”

Former Labour leader Lord Neil Kinnock has blamed Sir Keir Starmer's downfall on his "really seriously bad judgments”.

Lord Kinnock told Tonight with Andrew Marr Starmer's greatest flaw is an "inability to appoint really effective, honest, independently minded advisors.”

He pointed to the "puzzling" decision to appoint Peter Mandelson as US ambassador.  

He also praised Andy Burnham as a "very good guy".  

"What I'd love him to do, of course, which is probably extremely impossible, unless your name is Gordon Brown, is take the Treasury by the scruff of the neck," he added.

Lord Kinnock added the Conservatives have "got a bloody cheek calling for” a general election, and said there "shouldn't" be one.

"I did a count this morning, actually, eight Tory Prime Ministers, since the war, have become residents of No 10 without an election, so they've got a bloody cheek calling for it now, I have to say" he told Marr.

Former Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has told LBC he was “extremely angry" at Sir Keir Starmer's description of his leadership as "morally bankrupt". 

The outgoing PM made the remarks as he delivered his resignation speech on the steps of 10 Downing Street this morning.

"I was extremely angry about it," Corbyn told LBC's Andrew Marr.  "I was proud to be elected and to lead the Labour Party, elected twice to lead it, proud of the policies we developed, all of which were endorsed by Keir Starmer.

"And when I stepped down as Leader of the Labour Party, the party had funds, had 600,000 members, and it had policies that were actually individually very popular across the country about social redistribution.

"The idea it's morally bankrupt is a really disgraceful comment to make."

He added he believed it was "extremely unlikely" that Andy Burnham would call a snap election upon being elected PM. 

"He might say, well, actually, I would like to get a mandate on my own terms, but I don't think there is an overwhelming pressure, and certainly on the streets in my constituency this morning, nobody said anything about a general election."

Asked for his message to Sir Keir as he departs from No10, Corbyn urged him to stop "spending more and more on arms" and instead "put more and more effort into trying to bring about diplomacy and peace".

The new Makerfield MP was given a hero’s welcome by Labour MPs at Westminster earlier this afternoon.

He could be prime minister by mid-July if no other challenger emerges following Sir Keir Starmer’s decision to resign.

If a full leadership contest is triggered, the new PM would be in office by 1 September.

If there is no contest, the new PM would start work on 17 or 18 - shortly after MP nominations close.

Nicknamed  King of the North during his time in Greater Manchester, the new MP will automatically lose his mayoral role after winning the Makerfield seat to return to Westminster.

"It’s been very kind of sad for me today to leave Greater Manchester," he said. 

"The people have been brilliant to me over the last few years. I’ve loved every minute of the role. I hope I leave Manchester in a better place."