Asked whether he would take a cabinet job if offered, the spokesperson said Starmer had told his cabinet: \u201cThis is the end of my journey, but this is not the end of yours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Starmer has an 11,000 majority in his central London<\/a> seat, though it would be a significant target for the Greens if he were to vacate it.<\/p>\n Speaking during prime minister\u2019s questions on Wednesday, Starmer said he would miss the weekly sessions and continued: \u201cI\u2019m very proud of every one of our MPs who\u2019ve had a landslide Labour victory, coming from all different backgrounds, from all different places across the country. We inflicted the biggest loss on the Tory party opposite in the history of their party. We picked up our party, we turned it around.\u201d<\/p>\n If Burnham is unopposed as a candidate to succeed Starmer, he is expected to enter Downing Street on 17 July. Starmer will attend next month\u2019s Nato summit in Ankara as one of his last acts as prime minister, and will deliver the defence investment plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n Starmer met Burnham on Tuesday for the first time since the Makerfield byelection in what aides called a \u201cfrosty\u201d meeting<\/a>. The talks were held away from No 10 and are understood to have lasted around an hour.<\/p>\n Sources said it was clear there was a strained relationship between the two sides. \u201cKeir has shown time and again that he will put the interests of the country first but it is fair to say the meeting wasn\u2019t the warmest,\u201d one source said.<\/p>\n
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