Starmer and family to go abroad ‘for a few days’ over new year, says No 10

Keir Starmer (left), and his wife, Victoria, at the Labour party conference in Liverpool in September. Photograph: Adam Vaughan/EPA

Keir Starmer and his family are to take a short overseas holiday over the new year, Downing Street has said.

While the prime minister has the use of Chequers, his official country retreat, this will be his first overseas family holiday since the general election, with a planned break in Europe during August cancelled due to a spate of riots.