Person in News: PM Keir Starmer

6 Jul 2024

Keir Starmer has become the new United Kingdom Prime Minister after Labour’s landslide election victory. 

About Keir Starmer

PM Starmer

  • He is a British politician and barrister 
  • He was raised in Surrey, South East England
  • He Joined the Labour Party Young Socialists at age 16.

Political Career

  • Elected as Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras in 2015.
  • Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (2016-2020).
  • Shadow Immigration Minister (2015-2016).
  • Elected as Leader of the Labour Party in April 2020.

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Legal Career

  • Starmer became a barrister in 1987 at the Middle Temple.
  • He became a bencher at Middle Temple in 2009.
  • Early Career:
    • Served as a legal officer for the campaign group Liberty until 1990.
    • Joined Doughty Street Chambers in 1990, focusing on human rights issues.
  • International Work:
    • Called to the bar in several Caribbean countries.
    • Defended convicts sentenced to the death penalty in the Caribbean.

Achievements and Positions

  • Appointed Queen’s Counsel (QC) on April 9, 2002, at the age of 39.
  • Served as a human rights adviser to the Northern Ireland Policing Board and the Association of Chief Police Officers.
  • In July 2008, he was appointed Starmer as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Director of Public Prosecutions.
    • Starmer was noted for bringing a focus on human rights into the legal system.
  • Reforms: In 2011, he introduced the “first test paperless hearing”.
  • Operation Yewtree: In 2013, implemented changes to how sexual abuse investigations are handled.
    • In this process, he created  a panel to review historic complaints amid Operation Yewtree.

Awards and Honors

  • Pro Bono Recognition: Received the Bar Council’s Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award in 2005 for outstanding pro bono work in challenging the death penalty in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, and the Caribbean.
  • Academic Honor: Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
  • Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath: Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to law and criminal justice.
  • Privy Council Membership: Sworn into the Privy Council of the United Kingdom on 19 July 2017.
    • It allows him to be styled “The Right Honourable”.

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