Sir Keir Starmer is a British politician and barrister who has served as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015. A member of the Labour Party, he is currently Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, having been appointed to the Shadow Cabinet by Jeremy Corbyn in 2016. He is a candidate for leader of the Labour Party in the 2020 leadership election.
A look at Labour leadership hopeful Sir Keir Starmer, including his path to politics and key policies as he bids to replace Jeremy Corbyn as leader of the opposition.
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Sir Keir Starmer has declined to identify all of his donors, after coming under pressure to disclose who is funding his Labour leadership campaign. The frontrunner in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn..
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The Labour leadership candidates have clashed over responsibility for the party's anti-Semitism crisis. Lisa Nandy, who quit Jeremy Corbyn's shadow cabinet in 2016, said she spoke out on the issue but..
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Sir Keir Starmer says he is "astonished" that the prime minister has not visited the flood-hit regions of the UK. The Labour leadership candidate said that Boris Johnson's decision not to hold Cobra..
Labour members begin casting their votes on Monday to elect Jeremy Corbyn's replacement successor as party leader. Frontrunner Sir Keir Starmer says that the Labour Party has been "taking lumps out of..
Rebecca Long-Bailey, Keir Starmer and Lisa Nandy discuss what needs to change in the Labour Party on a TV debate. All three leadership candidates agreed there was not just one thing that has led to..
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Labour leadership candidates have called for a change to how social media companies police themselves. Their comments come after TV presenter Caroline Flack took her own life, Sir Keir said the wider..
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Keir Starmer came under fire from Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy over Labour’s Brexit position, both arguing that it contributed to the party’s landslide defeat in December. Speaking at the.. WorldNews - Published
Exclusive: Current system gives controlling partners 'easy mechanism' to commit financial abuse, warns Labour leadership contender Independent - Published
Frontrunner will propose replacing existing conventions with written constitution, arguing that Blair and Brown governments left devolution job half done Independent - Published
'Procedures committee unanimously agreed last night that in the circumstances and to ensure fairness to all candidates,' says general secretary Independent - Published
Keir Starmer, the frontrunner in the race to lead Britain's main opposition Labour Party, has pledged to end feuding within its ranks and take the fight to Prime Minister Boris Johnson if he wins the.. Reuters - Published
Keir Starmer's bid to become the next Labour leader has received a major boost after the influential trade union Unison threw its weight behind his campaign. Independent - Published
Britain's December election "blew away" the argument for a second Brexit referendum and the country must move on from its divide over whether or not to leave the European Union, the frontrunner to lead.. Reuters - Published
Keir Starmer, a former senior public prosecutor, launched his bid to replace Jeremy Corbyn as the leader of Britain's opposition Labour Party on Saturday with a defense of his efforts to stand up for.. Reuters - Published
Keir Starmer has confirmed his bid to be the next Labour leader, vowing to listen to the public about the way the party must change to "restore trust". Independent - Published
Keir Starmer, Brexit spokesman for Britain's opposition Labour Party, has emerged as the early front runner in the race to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as leader, according to a poll of members. Reuters - Published
Labour leadership contender accuses Boris Johnson of failing to take crisis seriously – calling for 'cultural shift' to make preventing homelessness 'a basic human right' Independent - Published
'I don't need somebody else's name tattooed to my head, some past leader, in order to make decisions,' shadow Brexit secretary says Independent - Published
British Labour Party's Keir Starmer is "seriously considering" running to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as the party's leader, the Guardian reported http://bit.ly/2M8B1cS on Tuesday. Reuters - Published
Move follows Boris Johnson's criticism of who would carry out the role - and casts doubt on future influence of Remain-backing Keir Starmer Independent - Published
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