Keir Starmer

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{{Infobox politician|name=Keir Starmer|image_size=260|birth_date={{birth date and age|df=y|1962|9|2}}|birth_place=Southwark, [[London]], [[England]], [[United Kingdom]]|political_orientation=[[Imperialism]]<br>[[Neoliberalism]]|political_party=[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]|image=Keir Starmer.png}}

'''Keir Rodney Starmer''' (born 2 September 1962) is a [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|British]] politician and lawyer who has served as [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|Prime Minister of the United Kingdom]] since 2024 and as leader of the [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]] since 2020. Previously he served as [[Director of Public Prosecutions (England and Wales)|Director of Public Prosecutions]] from 2008 to 2013 and held various shadow cabinet positions under [[Jeremy Corbyn]].

He participated in the prosecution of [[Julian Assange]] and wants to increase [[police]] presence in [[Proletariat|proletarian]] communities.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Lowkey|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=The Shady Past of Keir Starmer, with Oliver Eagleton|date=2023-03-30|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/keir-starmers-shady-past-with-oliver-eagleton/284193/|retrieved=2023-03-30}}</ref> Since taking over from Corbyn he has pushed the Labour Party to the right and purged many followers of his predecessor marking a move away from [[social democracy]] and back to [[neoliberalism]].<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=[[Lowkey]]|newspaper=[[MintPress News]]|title=Power Obsessions: The Shadowy Path of UK Labour's Keir Starmer, with Matt Kennard|date=2023-08-02|url=https://www.mintpressnews.com/power-obsessions-shadowy-path-uk-labours-keir-starmer-matt-kennard/285414/|retrieved=2023-08-03}}</ref>

== Early life ==
On 2 September 1962 Starmer was born in Southwark, [[London]]. His father ran a small toolmaking business and his mother was a [[NHS]] nurse. They settled in Oxted, Surrey an affluent town, where he attended Reigate state grammar school from 1974 to 1981. Reigate became a fee-paying school whilst Starmer was still in attendance but his cohort did not yet have to pay fees.<ref name=":2">{{Citation|author=Oliver Eagleton|year=2022|title=The Starmer Project: A Journey to the Right|title-url=https://annas-archive.org/md5/e2cc954a1e9e7305fd71ff6ecb5a491f|chapter=The Lawyer|publisher=Verso Books}}</ref>

At sixteen Starmer joined the [[Labour Party Young Socialists]] where he canvassed for [[James Callaghan]] to be [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|Prime Minister]] during the 1979 general election. He originally wanted to study politics but was persuaded to study law at Leeds University and he received a bachelors degree in 1985 before going on to study at St Edmund Hall, Oxford for postgraduate. In 1986 Starmer became an editor for [[Socialist Alternatives]], a [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] magazine representing the British section of the [[International Revolutionary Marxist Tendency]] (IRCM).<ref name=":2" />

== Legal career ==

=== Barrister ===
In 1987 Starmer became a barrister and shed his association with Socialist Alternatives to joined up with [[Liberty (advocacy group)|Liberty]], a human rights advocacy group, and his politics moved towards [[centrism]].<ref name=":2" />

On 25 October 2003 the Firle Bonfire Society stole a caravan, wheeled it through the streets and set it alight with effigies of [[traveller]] children inside to the cheers of the crowd. The incident was part of a campaign of intimidation against the Sussex traveller population but when it was brought to the [[Crown Prosecution Service]] the case was handed to Queen's Counsel Starmer who dismissed the charges of [[Racism|racial prejudice]] as unserious and the mob walked free.<ref name=":2" />

=== Director of Public Prosecutions ===
In 2008, Starmer became Director of Public Prosecutions, putting him at the head of the Crown Prosecution Service, which prosecuted 800,000 people every year. He also secretly served on the [[Trilateral Commission]], which is connected to the [[United States Intelligence Community|Statesian secret police]].<ref name=":0" />

He received a knighthood from [[Elizabeth Windsor|Queen Elizabeth II]] in 2014 for his career as a lawyer.<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|newspaper=Labour Party UK|title=Keir Starmer|date=2023|url=https://labour.org.uk/people/keir-starmer/|retrieved=2023-12-02}}</ref>

== Political Career ==

=== Member of parliament ===
He was elected to Parliament in the 2015 general election as the MP for Hoborn and St Pancras. He served as Shadow Immigration Minister (2015-2016), and later was reappointed by Corbyn as Shadow Secretary of State for [[Brexit]] (2016-2020).<ref name=":1" />

=== Leader of the Labour Party ===
In April 2020, Starmer was elected as Leader of the Labour Party.<ref name=":1" />

== Premiership ==
In the July 4, 2024 general election the Labour Party won a landslide victory allowing Starmer to become Prime Minister. However, due to Starmer driving the Labour Party to the right, the party's victory was not due to Labour's popularity, rather due to the implosion of the Conservative Party, with Labour going down in total votes in comparison to the Corbyn era.<ref name=":3" /> Starmer himself in his own seat lost 17% of votes compared to the last election achieving only 18,884 votes with a large protest vote of 7,312 against Starmer's policy on [[State of Palestine|Palestine]] going to anti-[[apartheid]] candidate [[Andrew Feinstein]] who ran as an independent and came second place.<ref name=":4" />

=== Resignation ===
Starmer's popularity consistently lowered throughout his premiership and he faced constant calls to resign with U-turns over policy and the appointment of [[Peter Mandelson]], a close friend of paedophile [[Jeffrey Epstein]], as ambassador to the U.S. weakening his position. With a devastating defeat in the May 2026 local elections where Labour lost 1,498 councillors and lost control of 38 councils, ministers started resigning over Starmer's failing leadership. Starmer refused to resign for weeks after this but after the decisive victory of [[Andy Burnham]] in the Makerfield by-election, Starmer resigned as Prime Minister on June 22 with him staying in place until the next leader is selected, which is expected to be Burnham.<ref>{{Web citation|author=Harriet Williamson|newspaper=[[Novara Media]]|title=Keir Starmer Resigns As Prime Minister|date=2026-06-22|url=https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/22/keir-starmer-resigns-as-prime-minister/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20260623114049/https://novaramedia.com/2026/06/22/keir-starmer-resigns-as-prime-minister/|archive-date=2026-06-23}}</ref>

== Policies ==
In 2023 Labour announced that the pledge of free school meals for all was going to be scrapped. Labour plans to increase the number of [[Ofsted]] inspections of school to yearly. Labour has pledged to continue the two-child cap on child benefits, the removal of which would have lifted 250,000 children out of poverty at the cost of £1.3 billion, this action has earned the Labour leader the nickname of “Sir Kid Starver”.<ref name=":3">{{Web citation|author=Robert Poole|newspaper=Morning Star|title=Enter ‘Sir Kid Starver’|date=2023-07-19|url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/f/enter-sir-kid-starver}}</ref>

Despite, the Labour Party's insistence it is left-wing, Starmer has refused to even commit to the idea of repealing Anti-Strike Laws.<ref name=":4">{{Web citation|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|title=Labour refuses to promise repeal of planned Tory anti-strike laws|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/dec/08/labour-refusing-to-promise-repeal-of-tory-anti-strike-laws|retrieved=2023-12-02}}</ref>

== References ==
[[Category:1962 births]]
[[Category:British Zionists]]
[[Category:Imperialists]]
[[Category:Labour Party politicians]]
[[Category:Leaders of the Labour Party (UK)]]
[[Category:Politicians in the United Kingdom]]
[[Category:Prime ministers of the United Kingdom]]

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