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He used the address to beg his party to unite in the fight against Nigel Farage’s Reform UK as he clings on to power. Sir Keir told Labour MPs and peers: “I have won every fight I’ve ever been in.

“I fought to change the Crown Prosecution Service so it better served victims of violence against women and girls. I fought to change the Labour Party to allow us to win an election again.

“People told me I couldn’t do it. And then they gradually said, you might just get over the line. We won with a landslide majority. Every fight I’ve been in, I have won.”

He added: “I have had my detractors every step along the way, and I’ve got them now. Detractors that don’t want a Labour government at all, and certainly not one to succeed.

“But I’ll tell you this, after having fought so hard for the chance to change our country, I’m not prepared to walk away from my mandate and my responsibility to my country, or to plunge us into chaos, as others have done.”

Sir Keir described the battle with Reform, which is leading national opinion polls, as the “fight of our lives, the fight of our times”.

He added: “It goes to the heart and soul of who we are as a party, as a government, and as a country, what it is to be British… And if they ever get in, they will divide, divide, divide. And it will tear this beautiful country apart. That is the fight of our times.

“As long as I have breath in my body, I’ll be in that fight, on behalf of the country that I love and I believe in, against those that want to tear it up. That is my fight, that is all of our fight, and we’re in this together.”

Sources said the “absolutely determined” PM received a positive reception from MPs and peers who attended the crunch meeting.

He apologised again for appointing Lord Peter Mandelson as US ambassador despite his links to billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.

And he paid tribute to his top aide Morgan McSweeney after his resignation yesterday in a hammer blow to the PM.

He admitted his Downing Street operation had not been “open or inclusive enough”, but added he was not prepared to walk away from his mandate or the country, sources said.