Starmer
Labour leader Keir Starmer is on course to replace Rishi Sunak as prime minister, according to exit polls on Thursday evening. Britain’s main opposition Labour party looked set for a landslide election win, putting an end to 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule marked by financial austerity, Brexit division and scandal.
Here are however 10 things to know about Starmer
10 things to know about Keir Starmer
- Keir Starmer is a human rights lawyer who once called for the British monarchy to be abolished, but years later knelt before Charles, then prince of Wales, to be knighted.
- He was also rumored to be the 1990s inspiration for a brooding heartthrob character in the Bridget Jones movies. More recently, he took a knee in support of Black Lives Matter.
- Starmer, 61, is a social liberal, fiscal moderate and leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party.
- He has been a member of parliament since 2015, and leader of the opposition — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s main rival — since 2020.
- Starmer’s parents were “proper old-fashioned socialists” who may have named their son after Keir Hardie, a 19th century Scottish trade unionist, who founded the Labour Party in 1900, says Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer: The Biography.
Britain’s main opposition Labour party looked set for a landslide election win, putting an end to 14 years of right-wing Conservative rule marked by financial austerity, Brexit division and scandal.
Here are however 10 things to know about Starmer
10 things to know about Keir Starmer
- Keir Starmer is a human rights lawyer who once called for the British monarchy to be abolished, but years later knelt before Charles, then prince of Wales, to be knighted.
- He was also rumored to be the 1990s inspiration for a brooding heartthrob character in the Bridget Jones movies. More recently, he took a knee in support of Black Lives Matter.
- Starmer, 61, is a social liberal, fiscal moderate and leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party.
- He has been a member of parliament since 2015, and leader of the opposition — Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s main rival — since 2020.
- Starmer’s parents were “proper old-fashioned socialists” who may have named their son after Keir Hardie, a 19th century Scottish trade unionist, who founded the Labour Party in 1900, says Tom Baldwin, author of Keir Starmer: The Biography.
- Starmer went to public school.
- His mother Josephine was a nurse in Britain’s National Health Service, or NHS.
- He joined the Young Socialists, the youth wing of the Labour Party, at age 16.
- In 2014, Starmer received a knighthood for his criminal justice work, becoming Sir Keir.
11, He has been married to his wife, Victoria Starmer, since 2007.
- Starmer, an Oxford and Leeds graduate was born on September 2, 1962. Vanguard, additional report sourced by DAYLIGHT
