Keir Starmer: The Complicated, Untold Personal Story of the UK’s New Prime Minister

Keir Starmer, a human rights lawyer from a small town in the south of England, will become the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. His victory on the 4th of July was overwhelming. But Britain doesn’t know who he is. Starmer has been in politics for just nine years and since taking over as UK Labor leader in 2020, he has led his party from its worst election defeat in almost a century to becoming the dominant force in British politics. At the same time, Politico comments, his success – at a time when Western allies are flirting with populism – positions him as one of the most important centrist leaders in the world, a possibly lonely position, by the end of the year. His enemies call what Starmer managed luck: they say he simply profited from the failure of the Conservatives. But the truth, reports Politico, is more strange and impressive. At 61, Starmer has a long but unknown history. THE […]
Source: News Beast

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