News about William Thornton

Sir Keir Starmer , alighting from his prime ministerial Audi just after 12.30pm, approached 10 Downing Street with a slow, heavy tread. The rain-spattered street, in a dank echo of Blairism, had been packed with flag-waving Labour activists. Lady Starmer shimmered beside him, slender in red. Hundreds of camera lenses were gawping and whirring at the couple from the far pavement where the press pack was assembled in tiers.

Sir Keir Starmer stepped through the door of 10 Downing Street this afternoon for the first time as Prime Minister as he vowed to 'immediately' begin work to 'rebuild Britain' and prepared to make key Cabinet appointments. The Labour leader was applauded by staff inside the famous black door as he walked inside with wife Victoria after making his first address to the nation as the new premier. The 61-year-old acknowledged 'weariness at the heart of the nation' after his so-called 'loveless landslide' in  the general election. Jubilant party activists had earlier cheered his arrival into Downing Street after he was formally installed as Britain's 58th PM by King Charles. He and Victoria received a rapturous welcome after returning from the Palace where he had an audience with His Majesty around noon, shortly after Rishi Sunak exited having tendered his resignation. Sir Keir said he wanted to 'changed the country' but warned it will 'take a while', saying he wanted to restore the values of 'service' to politics. He admitted that many people did not believe he would improve the country. 'My government will fight every day until you believe again,' he said. At Buckingham Palace the couple were welcomed by the King and Queen's principal private secretary Sir Clive Alderton, along with Charles's equerry Royal Navy Commander William Thornton. They left 20 minutes later to head to Downing Street, after Sir Keir was appointed to the job. Buckingham Palace said in a statement: 'The King received in Audience The Right Honourable Sir Keir Starmer MP today and requested him to form a new Administration. 'Sir Keir accepted His Majesty's offer and kissed hands upon his appointment as Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury.'