Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB KC (born 2 September 1962)https://news.sky.com/story/keir-starmer-who-is-he-labour-leader-new-prime-minister-13054739 is a British politician and barrister who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024, previously as Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024, and as Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015, and previously was Director of Public Prosecutions from 2008 to 2013. Starmer ideologically identifies as progressive and as a socialist.
Starmer's YouTube channel has 37.3K subscribers and 8,479,999 views as of 2024. After he was elected prime minister, Starmer used the 10 Downing Street channel.
== History ==
Born in London and raised in Surrey,https://news.sky.com/story/keir-starmer-who-is-he-labour-leader-new-prime-minister-13054739 Starmer attended the selective state Reigate Grammar School, which became a private school while he was a student.https://news.sky.com/story/keir-starmer-who-is-he-labour-leader-new-prime-minister-13054739 He was politically active from an early age and joined the Labour Party Young Socialists at the age of 16. He graduated with a Bachelor of Laws degree from the University of Leeds in 1985 and gained a postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law degree at St Edmund Hall at the University of Oxford in 1986. After being called to the bar, Starmer practised predominantly in criminal defence work, specialising in human rights. He served as a human rights adviser to the Northern Ireland Policing Board and was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 2002; his Northern Ireland policing work influencing his decision to pursue a political career. During his time as Director of Public Prosecutions, he dealt with a number of major cases including the Stephen Lawrence murder case. He was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to law and criminal justice.
Starmer was elected to the House of Commons at the 2015 general election. As a backbencher, he supported the unsuccessful Britain Stronger in Europe campaign in the 2016 European Union membership referendum. He was appointed to Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet as Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, and advocated a proposed second referendum on Brexit. Following Corbyn's resignation after Labour's defeat at the 2019 general election, Starmer succeeded him by winning the 2020 leadership election on a left-wing platform. During his tenure as opposition leader, Starmer moved the party toward the political centre and emphasised the project of eliminating antisemitism within the party. He led Labour to victory in the local elections in 2023 and 2024. In 2023 Starmer set out five missions for his government, targeting issues such as economic growth, health, clean energy, crime and education.
In July 2024, Starmer led Labour to a landslide victory at the 2024 general election, ending fourteen years of Conservative government with Labour becoming the largest party in the House of Commons. He succeeded Rishi Sunak as prime minister on 5 July 2024, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010 and the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair, to whom Starmer has been widely compared, at the 2005 general election.
== YouTube channel ==
Starmer created his YouTube channel on 13 Jan 2020, during his successful campaign for the Labour leadership, but didn't start uploading content to the channel until 2023. He has since uploaded 186 videos to the channel, which has 37.3K subscribers and 8,479,999 views as of 2024. After he was elected prime minister, Starmer used the 10 Downing Street channel.https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCclw_dv8UAQs86ZsRJ3H5jg
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