- He was a Queen's Counsel before being awarded the Knight Commander of the Order of Bath in the 2014 Queen's New Years Honours List for his services to Law and Criminal Justice. He was the Director of the Public Prosecutions, Crown Prosecution Service.
- He was elected Leader of the Labour Party on 4 April 2020.
- Elected Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland on 5 July 2024.
- He is older than four of his Prime Minister predecessors: David Cameron, Boris Johnson, Liz Truss and Rishi Sunak.
- He is the first sitting UK Prime Minister to visit Samoa (Thursday October 24, 2024).
- He is the first sitting UK Prime Minister to visit Brazil since David Cameron in 2012 (November 17, 2024).
- He is the first serving UK Prime Minister to visit Cyprus since John Major in 1993, when he attended that year's Commonwealth Summit, and the first to visit for bilateral talks since Edward Heath in 1971 (Monday December 9, 2024).
- He is the first sitting UK Prime Minister to visit Albania (Wednesday 14 May, 2025).
- He became unpopular with many farmers in his first year in office by ending a longstanding inheritance tax exemption on agricultural assets worth over £1 million.
- In 2024, he became the seventh Labour prime minister, after Ramsay MacDonald, Clement Attlee, Harold Wilson, James Callaghan, Tony Blair and Gordon Brown, and the fourth, after Attlee, Wilson and Blair, to win a parliamentary majority at a general election. However, his win was dubbed a "loveless landslide" by many, as Labour won just 34% of the vote across the UK, a lower vote share than any party forming a post-Second World War majority government.
- He is the first sitting British Prime Minister to visit Azerbaijan (Tuesday November 12, 2024).
- He is the first sitting UK prime minister to visit Armenia post-independence (Sunday May 3, 2026).
- In July 2026 he became the first serving UK prime minister to be awarded France's top honour, the Legion d'honneur.
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