Who is Keir Starmer? Britain's new prime minister is complex, unknowable, aggrieved
Posted on AllSides July 5th, 2024
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Peter Strain for POLITICO
OPINION
Keir Starmer, a human rights lawyer from a small town in southern England, is the new prime minister of the United Kingdom. His victory on July 4 was overwhelming. Yet Britain barely knows who he is.
Starmer has been a politician for only nine years, and since being crowned U.K. Labour leader in 2020 has steered his party from its worst election defeat in almost a century to become the dominant force in British politics.
More than that, his success — just as Western allies flirt with populism — places him...
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