Starmer calls his resignation decision “intensely personal” in first BBC interview
The outgoing UK PM tells the BBC it was “really tough” to accept his political career was over, and why it matters.

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The outgoing UK PM tells the BBC it was “really tough” to accept his political career was over, and why it matters.
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