Keir Starmer

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The first biography of Keir Starmer. Keir Starmer is the first leader of the Labour Party with a genuinely working-class background since Neil Kinnock. Though dismissed as a Blairi te centrist, he is from the left of the party by anyone else’s standards. A Conservative cabinet minister once classified him as “a Trot.” How did he reconcile his left wing views with maintaining law and order until 2013 as England and Wales Director of Public Prosecutions, Britain’s third most senior lawyer under both Labour and Tory governments? Meanwhile, his schooling included music classes by Fat Boy Slim. Show more