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Keir Starmer
Keir Rodney Starmer is a Labour Party politician who became Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. He has been MP for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015 and leader of Labour since April 2020. Starmer, born in 1962, studied law at the University of Leeds and Oxford, then became a barrister specialising in human rights. In 2008 he was appointed director of public prosecutions, for a five-year term. Find news, comment, and analysis about him here.
How posh is Keir Starmer? British voters don’t know
A quarter of the public think the Labour leader was privately educated – and some think he inherited his knighthood.
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The war on Jamie Driscoll
Britain’s last Corbynista has fallen foul of Labour’s authoritarian machine.
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Keir Starmer will bury Blairism
In office, circumstances will force the Labour leader to break with his party’s liberal progressivism.
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Keir Starmer, take note: voters want conviction, not austerity redux
On election day, will we think that he fought with passion or shrugged and gave up?
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You Ask Us: Will Keir Starmer introduce electoral reform?
And will Andy Burnham ever be Prime Minister?
Rishi Sunak and Keir Starmer are both trapped
The Prime Minister is hemmed in by the Conservative Party, and the Labour leader is a prisoner of public opinion.
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Labour minister gets an apology over “no money” note – 13 years late
Your weekly dose of gossip from around Westminster.
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Tony Blair: “If I was back in front-line politics…”
Labour’s former prime minister on the AI revolution, the curse of Brexit and what Keir Starmer must do to win.
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Keir Starmer’s prevention politics
The Labour leader is motivated by a desire to stop disaster before it happens.
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Keir Starmer’s democratic dilemma
Labour’s leader might find himself at odds with the party’s National Policy Forum this weekend.
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The by-elections were a warning to Sunak – and Starmer
Uxbridge shows that Labour has not yet sealed the deal with the public.
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Lisa Nandy’s housing plan is radical and – most importantly – cheap
The shadow housing and levelling-up secretary is showing voters how Labour can change things without spending big.
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Will Labour dare embrace Tony Blair’s agenda?
Greater use of AI and the private sector would force Keir Starmer to slay more left taboos.
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Who in Labour gets climate and nature?
To achieve Keir Starmer’s mission for sustained economic growth, the party must put nature at its core.
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PMQs: Keir Starmer talks tough on spending
The Labour leader co-opted the Tories’ “magic money tree” line of attack.
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Tony Blair anoints his successor
Keir Starmer’s appearance at the former PM’s Future of Britain conference was like a graduation.
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Can Anas Sarwar stand up to Keir Starmer?
Labour’s refusal to scrap the two-child benefit cap is a test of the Scottish party’s independence.
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Keir Starmer’s most dangerous months now lie ahead
The Labour leader faces a tension between economic orthodoxy and the promise of change.
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“Cautious Rachel” defends two-child benefit cap
Rachel Reeves and Wes Streeting put on a jovial show of Labour unity amid rumours of division.
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