His father worked in a factory as a toolmaker and his mother was a nurse. The sunrises through the sea mist over the sculpture The Couple by Sean Henry at Newbiggin-by-the-Sea on the Northumberland coast. For me, what Im driven by in this is the very deep inequalities that weve now got across the country of every sort: Income, wealth, health, influence, its deeply ingrained. He said that did not mean an endless debate about nationalising services, but a very forward-looking radicalism. Georgia Gould, Labour leader of Camden council where Starmer is now the local MP, told BuzzFeed News: I say to him, It's alright. The pressure is even stronger for women, who are already working against the perception that a Member of Parliament is a man. He was very charismatic and humorous. Starmer was the first in his family to go to university. But its clear that Labours long-winded handling of Brexit culminating in a policy that satisfied neither true Remainers nor Leavers played a big part in the brutal general election result, and Starmer has been blamed for that. Youd be forgiven for assuming the new leader of the Labour party and rumoured inspiration behind Bridget Joness Mark Darcy fast tracked from Eton to Oxbridge via the Bullingdon Club, The Duke and Duchess of Sussex step out for Hollywood date night at exclusive private members club as Harry announces major live event, In Queen Margrethe II of Denmarks last interview before her extensive surgery, she spoke of the royal title drama and Crown Prince Frederiks future on the throne, The Princess of Wales wears delicate brooch with touching connection to the late Queen. As the publicity averse political spouse stepped into the public eye once again this week, many are wondering if the elegant former solicitor might just be Sir Keirs secret weapon? His father, Rod, who was well known in the local community, worked in a factory every day from 8am to 5pm before coming home for his tea and going out to work again. His father was a factory worker, he stressed last month, and his mother an NHS nurse. But despite this, he said he never managed to foster any real intimacy with his father. Ive never seen him on the dance floor but, as an orator, he has no sense of rhythm. Cancel any time. Starmer was just out of university when Vickers asked him to move in. And while Sir Keir has made frequent reference to his tool maker father, dad Rodney once boasted that he ran his own factory. When I approached Keir about the case he immediately said Come in and see me. Starmer told the audience how he was impersonated by a serial fraudster during his time at the CPS. Grey seal pups on the beach at Horsey in Norfolk, as the pupping season draws to a close at one the UK's most important sites for the mammals. Most of the 80-strong crowd get to their feet and applaud. At one of Starmers recent campaign events in Stratford, one Labour member raised concerns about his record in the CPS; she was concerned he had not prosecuted the police over the shooting of Jean Charles De Menezes. Is it any good? Starmers parents were animal lovers who rescued donkeys and Great Danes in their spare time (Whenever one of us left home, they were replaced with a So despite the rumoured links betweenSir Keir and Mark Darcy, their similarities seem to remain purely visual - what with Bridget revealing in the film that her heartthrob votes Tory. Reflecting on his sons knighthood in 2014, Rodney He hates being late he'll say to me, Georgia, we're gonna be late. For his allies, this moment has been a long time coming: When former Labour leader Ed Miliband lost the 2015 general election, Starmer was urged to stand and replace him despite becoming an MP just weeks earlier. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. Assistant Editor Isabel Hardman writes, This isnt something that occurs to those who arent worried about their social status because they are already from the sort of backgrounds that regularly send people into professions and even Parliament. Starmers current image as an apparently corporate establishment figure is at odds with the life he led in his early twenties. At the meeting in Blackburn, Starmer conceded that Tory messaging during the general election campaign had simply been far more effective: Get Brexit done was just left there, and we werent knocking it down. "But he had this utter devotion and commitment to my mum," said Sir Keir. Starmer's wife, Victoria, (right) speaks to MP Lucy Powell at a campaign event. She was in and out of hospital with a rare illness which eventually forced her to stop He won by chiming with what the membership wanted this contest will be won by Labour members thinking, Whos the best person to beat Johnson?. Starmer met his wife when she was working for a firm, preparing case files for him before he went into court. We're talking about a time when the Labour party was Bennite. This only bolsters the idea of him as a businesslike figure with little personality; Starmer is apparently well aware he needs to work on this side of himself. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex step out for Hollywood date night at exclusive private members club as Harry announces major live event, In Queen Margrethe II of Denmarks last interview before her extensive surgery, she spoke of the royal title drama and Crown Prince Frederiks future on the throne, The Princess of Wales wears delicate brooch with touching connection to the late Queen, All hail Labours new leader, Sir Keir Starmer, The Surrey town of Oxted where Keir Starmer is a notable resident. One cabinet minister told us: He is by miles the best candidate. Does he really have anything in common with them? Commentator George Monbiot said at the time: This is a moment in which the pomp and majesty of the law falls away to reveal a squalid little stitch-up. Starmer reversed his decision in 2011 following an inquest into Tomlinsons death. Its not just Jeremy; it was Ed Miliband too. Who was Keir Starmer's dad Rodney? Keir Starmer is the son of Rodney and Josephine Starmer and he was the second of four children. The family lived in Surrey and were strong supporters of the Labour Party. His school friend Paul Vickers, who later became his flatmate, once told how we sat surrounded by boxes of thousands and thousands of Socialist Alternatives. Despite their stilted relationship, Sir Keir said Rodney was devoted in his care of his wife. He backed Andy Burnham in that summers contest; when Corbyn won by a landslide, Starmer accepted a job as shadow home office minister. The handsome barrister specialising in human rights who had cinemas UK-wide swooning in a devoted chorus. Sir Keir Starmer took over the leadership of the Labour Party in April 2020 - weeks after the Covid pandemic had taken hold in the UK. Starmer faced fury in 2010 when he refused to prosecute a police officer involved in the killing of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson, who died after being pushed to the ground during the G20 protests the year before. It makes you feel as though you dont fully belong, as though people might find it easier to find you out if you are conspicuous. His spokesman insisted he was a 'proud socialist' who was standing for the leadership 'because of his determination to deliver a radical Labour Government at the next Election'. Rod spoke of his pride for his son in a local newsletter several years earlier, describing how Starmer was awarded his knighthood at Buckingham Palace: We were the proudest parents there; Keir was treated like a Lord and we were looked after like a Lords Mum and Dad!!. Sir Keir claimed that clashes between union members and the police led 'to the question of the role the police should play, if any, in civil society'. Despite all you would assume about this clean-cut figure; a private boarding school followed by a turn at Oxbridge where he might have joined Boris and David at the Bullingdon? Is Putin winning? However, since the article has been published, there has been significant backlash from Starmer supporters. I can do this one. Laughing, he explained how one of Bints victims was asked in court why she hadnt been confused that he didnt actually look like Starmer. Self care and ideas to help you live a healthier, happier life. We can't be late.. You might not, for instance, try to lose your strong regional accent when you come to London if your background means that you already feel you belong. I also think there is a human side to him which doesn't always come out. On Saturday he was announced as Labours new leader, with hopes to put an end to the Corbyn era (and that landslide defeat in December). WebIn March 2018, Starmer told the BBCs Nick Robinson that his father was a toolmaker working in a factory and working every hour, basically. A Labour Staffer Promoted A Rebecca Long-Bailey Event, Labour Insiders Have Described An Internal Election Post-Mortem Document As Propaganda, Labour Staff Who Were Made Redundant While Trying To Improve Their Working Conditions Say Their Treatment Is Outrageous. Do not sell or share my personal information. In the interview, Sir Keir also talked about how his political beliefs had shifted, and his aim to unite Labour. But underlining this apparent call for further state intervention, Starmer also pointed to the falsehoods put out by the Conservative party in this election, sometimes amplified by the press, saying: Theres an urgent need to look at how that all operates., Just six days later, Starmer launched a rallying cry for press freedom after a number of political journalists were turned away from a briefing in Downing Street. Rodney worked as a toolmaker in a factory and worked tirelessly to The bundles of documents in front of me had to be 100% accurate, Starmer said at an event last year. Starmer is, arguably, too bland for that, and not political enough. We hold major institutions accountable and expose wrongdoing. The one little detail the Labour Leader always leaves out, however, is that his dad also owned that factory. Trump rages at Mark Zuckerberg amid claims group linked to Facebook boss gave $2 million to Georgia elections board - and says Dems are 'trying to steal a SECOND election'. And, I regret that.". Starmer, who represented the National Council for Civil Liberties, argued that Thames Valley Police had acted unlawfully by setting up roadblocks and confiscating sound equipment to prevent a rave from taking place. Reflecting on his sons knighthood in She took steroids that allowed her to stay mobile for many years, defying the doctors who told her in her twenties she would never walk again. Because Rodney Starmer, the Labour leaders father, was not employed as a toolmaker, but self-employed; and because the parents bought a house and once Peter Tatchell, a human rights campaigner and longtime acquaintance of Starmer, remembered him as always being very open to representation from outside his own circle as DPP. Political to the core but not a natural politician. Join the conversation with other Spectator readers. After the incident sparked outrage on social media, Starmer released a public statement, calling on the cabinet secretary to investigate Number 10 and declaring: Banning sections of the media from attending important briefings about important matters of government is damaging to democracy., Starmers critics within the party told us these contrasting views of the press reflected his tendency to flip-flop and say different things depending on the audience he was speaking to at the time. Yeah, it's a bit hidden.. One recent focus group described him as quite boring and corporate, somebody at home in a big room with very high-powered people, not somebody for the people. His father worked in a factory as a toolmaker and his mother was a nurse. The family lived in Surrey and were strong supporters of the Trevor Kavanagh, political columnist at the Sun, has described his actions against journalists as the longest, costliest and perhaps most spiteful criminal persecution in history. Falconer, then a commercial barrister, said Starmer was a "very intense, committed, slightly isolated figure" when they first met. And I could not be more wrong about him. Last year, he told of his mothers pride in the NHS: In that high-dependency unit, near death, where they werent sure they had the facilities for her, she held my arm and said: You wont let your dad go private, will you?. And within five minutes he was on the phone, saying, What can I do? The next day, I was going to visit the bereaved family. Is Andrew Bailey finally learning his lesson? BuzzFeed News contacted author Helen Fielding to establish the truth behind the claims, but she remained enigmatic on the subject. This was classic poacher-turned-gamekeeper territory, one journalist said to him when he took on the role. And I again texted him and said, I really don't expect you to be able to get down from Parliament but he just got on the tube, came down, and spent over an hour sitting with the family, listening to them. He didn't particularly like to socialise, so he wouldn't really go out very much.. As a politician, nothings changed. ', Another put: 'I was today years old when I found out that Keir Starmer was the influence for Mark Darcy in Bridget Jones' Diary. Contact Emily Ashton at emily.ashton@buzzfeed.com. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, 'He was incredibly hard working. So the article has been ridiculed as a snide and not overly successful way to smear Starmer despite being well shared by those on the right. Then he went back to Parliament with nobody the wiser.. Starmer defended the move as protecting the vulnerable and giving people access to courts where they wouldn't otherwise have access to courts. Starmer, who became a member of Parliament in 2015 after a long and high-profile legal career, will not fit neatly into a political box. I have no intention of purging anyone. Starmers long legal career and scrupulous attention to detail made him the right fit for the shadow Brexit role, for which he went line by line through complex draft legislation and used arcane parliamentary procedures to embarrass the government and force them to release key documents. Who are they protecting and from what?. Sir Keir Starmer doesnt appear to be any of those things. His scale of ambition was clear, and the move did not go down well with Conservative commentators, who described him as a bleeding heart liberal. I think the Keir you see today is pretty much the Keir of 30 years ago, Tatchell added. He is dismissed as a Blairite centrist by the left and a radical Marxist by the right. It is a contentious subject since families living close-by worry that Starmer will sell it and any future development will transform the areas character. Starmer also feels strongly about the countrys creaking social care system, not least because his own sister is a social care worker. The views expressed in the contents above are those of our users and do not necessarily reflect the views of MailOnline. Starmer became a Queens Counsel and joint head of Doughty Street Chambers in 2002. Jenny Chapman, a former MP who was vice-chair of Blairite pressure group Progress, is his campaign chair; Simon Fletcher, exchief of staff to Corbyn, is strategic campaign adviser; Kat Fletcher, who also worked on Corbyns 2015 leadership campaign, is director of field; and Morgan McSweeney, who ran Liz Kendalls doomed leadership bid, is campaign manager. Starmers team denies he has long been preparing to succeed Corbyn as leader. Starmer meets nurses during a visit to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. Starmer said he, like many others, had been told by voters that they couldnt back Corbyn but he insisted their views had been tainted by inaccurate media portrayals. We didnt have an equivalent, he said. Thats because he has no real politics.. In Blackburn, Starmer confronted this head-on: We need a very clear plan to make sure we can win those seats back. Its a reflection on the legal profession that they thought she had taken a step down, he added. She benefits from this confidence now, as it shows a certain happiness in her own skin, but it is as much a function of her accident of birth as anything else. His mother, Jo, died in 2015, just two weeks before Starmer was first elected as a Labour MP. Englands Ollie Chessum dives in to score his sides second try during the Guinness Six Nations match at Twickenham Stadium, London, Sam Smith arrives for the Brit Awards ceremony, A robin redbreast takes flight in Dublins botanic gardens. Rodneys wife Josephine, a nurse, was forced to give up work because she had Stills disease, a rare autoimmune disease which gradually robbed Sir Keirs mother of her speech and movement. Despite being beaten by an Old Etonian with de Pfeffel as his middle name, the Labour Party has descended into a rather predictable round of the Four Yorkshiremen, with competing factions arguing variously that voters in former red wall seats will only return to Labour if it is led by a northerner, a woman and preferably someone who grew up in a cardboard box. But Starmer insists he has not changed. I understood who he was and what he was but we weren't close and I regret that. Friends said his move into Westminster politics was in no small part driven by the level of budget cuts he encountered as head of the CPS. Filter appointments Filter appointments Current appointments Total number of appointments 1 Date of birth December 1934. His dedication to supporting people locally, to supporting the council and being there for us has just been amazing. Starmer paces in front of the audience, his voice raised: We can mope around for the next four years, taking lumps out of each other. The Mail reported that the Labour leader acquired the property and land, on the green belt near the Surrey home where he grew up, in 1996, when he was still As a child, Sir Keir was not close with his dad, Rodney, and his mother Josephine was very very ill. His three years at the side of Jeremy Corbyn, the man widely blamed for Labours worst election defeat since 1935, angers many voters who believe he did not do enough to stop the party hurtling out of control. Starmer has cancelled a number of campaign events. Sir Keir said his name - named after Labour Party founder Keir Hardie - earned him "plenty of nicknames" at school, Ten years ago, pre-politics, Sir Keir was the Director of Public Prosecutions, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. He said it was really incredibly cheap but really grungy, and their landlord was eventually sent to prison for living off the earnings of prostitutes. Emily Ashton is a senior political correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in London. The reality is that hedging his bets and playing to both the left and the right of the party could be his best chance of winning this contest. Anyhow, a lawyer cant say 'fuck, my client the Labour leadership is awful,' but that is how its been for the last three years., Starmer lavished praise on Corbyn in his speech to members in Blackburn. Several journalists, including some of the newspapers very best, have been working non-stop on this, The importance of exposing Matt Hancocks WhatsApp messages, Sunday shows round-up: Starmer challenged on whether voters can trust him, Starmer did a bad job of interrogating Sunak at PMQs. He also picked a Northern Soul record - Dobie Gray's Out On The Floor - saying it reminded him of his "early days in London with a group of friends in a really grotty flat above a sauna and massage parlour that kept interesting hours". Video, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, Listen: Keir Starmer on Desert Island Discs, recent decision to suspend former leader Jeremy Corbyn, Thrillingly tense, belly-laugh funny and mind-warpingly weird - we've got your lockdown weekend sorted, Colleagues, turned lovers, turned enemies. Only 1 a week after your trial. What makes him seem as though he has had the same comfortable upbringing as the stereotypical politician is that he has learned to look the part. Their union was blessed with four kids. Starmers appointment as head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2008 confounded many people: the human rights activist turned chief prosecutor for the state. As DPP, Starmer also flexed his muscles against the Westminster elite by prosecuting several parliamentarians over their expense claims, followed by thencabinet minister Chris Huhne and his wife for perverting the course of justice. Contrast Starmer with Jess Phillips, who is far more regularly written up as being working class and yet is in fact the daughter of public sector workers (her father was a teacher, her mother deputy chief executive of the NHS Confederation and chair of an NHS trust). I dont think anyone really expected someone who dedicated his career to defending workers, trade unions, and activists to become director of public prosecutions, campaigner and peer Doreen Lawrence said in Starmers campaign video. What do we know about Sir Keir Starmers wife, Lady Starmer? I assume that left to his own devices, Keir would have had a more explicit second referendum position. And so you learn to fit in. He was a difficult man, a complicated man. He denied being involved: A decision was taken not to prosecute in that case two years before I was appointed as director of public prosecutions, so theres a false story going round. Speaking to BuzzFeed News afterwards, the young woman said she still had doubts about Starmers ability to proactively combat institutional racism within the police and would probably vote for Long-Bailey. The Spectator argues that, as an outsider, Starmer has learned to look the part. Rodney and Josephine named their son after the Labour Partys first leader, Keir Hardie, and instilled in him their own leftist politics from a young age. She was in and out of hospital with a rare illness which eventually forced her to stop working. He was eventually arrested and prosecuted in 2009. Hes charming, clever and elegant, and many people believe that he was the original motivation for Helen Fieldings Mark Darcy, the hero of Bridget Jones. Read about our approach to external linking. The local Surrey council is reportedly under pressure to provide thousands of new homes, and has accepted it must sacrifice areas of its green belt in order to meet targets. I think it would be a great asset if he can work on a sense of humour as well. Harry Coles, a right-leaning journalist who wrote the story (and is also the ex boyfriend of First Fiance Carrie Symonds) also details how Sir Keir played down his wealth during the recent Labour leadership campaign. But if you are the first in your family to enter higher education, then you immediately feel very conscious of your difference. Heather Williams, then the deputy head of chambers, remembered him juggling his work and football commitments at weekends. On the many occasions she was in hospital he would stay with her the whole time, he wouldn't leave the hospital, he would sleep on any chair or whatever was available. 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It needs a fundamental review. Cooper said: "We were, slightly weirdly, young socialists in a very, very safe Tory seat. One Labour staffer said it had been a huge mistake to pursue the second referendum so vigorously when so many of Labours traditional supporters just wanted to see the back of the whole thing. Keir and Paul lived there for several years, and then I believe it was condemned as unfit for human habitation by Haringey Council, Cooper said. ', And one person added: 'Finding outKeir Starmer was the inspo forMark Darcyin Bridget Jones Diary has fully blown my mind. or we can pick ourselves up, and we say, We can change this if we pull together.. Nigel Greenhalgh of Surrey-based Village Developments told the Mail on Sunday that the plot was worth a lot of money, probably around 1.5 million per acre, so you are looking at 10 million in all. 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