page_title: Keir Starmer
section_title: Awards and honours
hierarchical_section_title: Keir Starmer / Awards and honours
caption_attribution_description: Русский: Орден Бани, звезда рыцаря-командора, гражданский дивизион, после 1950. Великобритания. Экспозиция Таллинского музея рыцарских орденов. English: Order of the Bath, star of Knight Commander, civil division, after 1950. United Kingdom. The exhibition of the Tallinn Museum of Orders of Knighthood, Estonia.
context_page_description: Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB QC MP is a British politician and former lawyer who has served as Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2020. He has been Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015. Ideologically, he identifies as a socialist and has been described as being on the soft left within the Labour Party.
  Named after Labour Party founder Keir Hardie, Starmer was born in London and raised in Surrey where he attended the state Reigate Grammar School, which became an independent school while he was a student. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws from the University of Leeds in 1985 and a postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law from St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford in 1986.
  After qualifying for the bar, Starmer acted exclusively as a defence lawyer specialising in human rights issues, before being appointed as a Queen's Counsel in 2002. In 2008, he became Director of Public Prosecutions and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service, holding these roles until 2013. For his role as Director of Public Prosecutions, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 2014 New Year Honours.
context_section_description: Appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) in 2002.
  Bar Council's Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award in 2005, for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work in challenging the death penalty.
  Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2014 New Year Honours for "services to law and criminal justice". The knighthood entitles him to be styled as "Sir Keir Starmer"; however, he prefers that people do not use the title "Sir".
  Sworn into the Privy Council of the United Kingdom on 19 July 2017.
  Elected Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 2019.
caption: The star given to those appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath
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