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Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and former lawyer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2026. He served as Leader of the Labour Party from 2020 to 2026 and as Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015. Before entering politics, he was a barrister and served as Director of Public…
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s announcement, Devine spoke out at his constituency home. He said:
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“Lawyers representing those who have been charged have raised with us the question of parliamentary privilege. We have considered that question and concluded that the applicability and extent of any parliamentary privilege claimed should be tested in court,”
“s announcement, Devine spoke out at his constituency home. He said:”
“When Jeremy speaks about the way people are employed, the way young people are employed, when he talks about mental health, when he talks about housing, there is a huge consensus. Obviously, there are outlier issues where we’re going to have to find our way forward as a party. The test will be in two or three years’ time when we look at how Jeremy is doing then.”
“too many people do not feel safe in their streets”
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“I was not saying that Israel had the right to cut off water, food, fuel or medicines”
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“urgent need for a ceasefire, the return of hostages and an immediate increase in the volume of humanitarian aid”
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“to stifle debate on Palestine”
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“hijacked the vigil for the victims”
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“will feel the full force of the law”
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“s agreement, Mandelson had been removed from the Privy Council for bringing it into disrepute. The Mandelson scandal was significant for his premiership, and led to the resignation of Starmer”
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“scoring party political points”
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Full Fact rated the claim “In 2003 Keir Starmer won the case that gave illegal migrants access to UK benefits.” This is misleading. Eligible asylum seekers could already access accommodation and financial support before the 2003 case involving Mr Starmer, under previous legislation..
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Public attention spiked: 130,456 Wikipedia readers in one day, 12.3× the usual 10,579, with 80 article edits. Editors noted: Further to the standard used in other PM pages (They was succeeded by X, their X)
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Published video “Watch my statement live from Downing Street.”.
Full Fact rated the claim “As a former prime minister, Keir Starmer will get a “pension” or “salary” worth £115,000 a year.” This is misleading. The £115,000 figure is the maximum amount ex-PMs can claim each year to cover necessary costs associated with their ongoing duties..
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Published video “Keir Starmer reflects on his time as Labour leader and Prime Minister”.
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Published video “Keir Starmer: Our support for Ukraine will never waver.”.
Published video “Protecting victims of domestic abuse | Keir Starmer sits down with Nour to talk about Raneem’s Law”.
Published video “Keir Starmer chairs his final Cabinet meeting in Downing Street”.
Published video “Keir Starmer answers his final question at PMQs”.
Published video “Keir Starmer on his last PMQs”.
Published video “Keir Starmer: I’m proud to leave this country in a better shape than I found it”.
“I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that really important question, and I will start by wishing him a very happy birthday. This issue is really important. I pay tribute to every volunteer; they show <span id="932" class="column-number" data-column-number="932"></span>incredible bravery in putting their lives at risk to save others. Our guiding principle is ensuring that we respond to this complex case by properly recognising their vital work. Ministers will continue to work with all parties, th”
“I thank my hon. Friend for her question, her support and her friendship for me, Vic and the kids. Whatever the challenge, she has always been there for us, particularly Vic and the kids, and I really thank her for that. This will be my last answer from this Dispatch Box. Every Prime Minister knows when they take up the torch that the day will come when they have to pass it on. That day has come for me. This is the end of my political journey. In six years, we went from historic defeat in 2019”
“It is very important that we have all the resources we need to provide the energy we need, and to bring the price of energy down, and that is what we are doing.”
“I pay tribute to the commission and its work. The work of strengthening our democracy will, and must, continue.”
“I have been careful not to tempt fate and jinx the result. I am a passionate Arsenal and England supporter and have watched many games with agonising moments; on the question of a bank holiday, the hon. Gentleman should ask again on Sunday.”
“I join my hon. Friend in paying tribute to Craig. I believe there is a famous Scottish song about walking 500 miles and then another 500, but to surpass that is an amazing achievement. We all pay tribute.”
“The hon. Lady is right to raise rural areas, and that is why we have put record investment into our local authorities and our NHS across the country, including in Shropshire.”
“I am very proud that we delivered the Hillsborough law yesterday. It is important to recognise that there has always been an initial injustice and then a further injustice when the state does not acknowledge and get to the truth. We are putting that right with the Hillsborough law.”
“The economy has been stabilised, we have stronger public services, half a million children are being lifted out of poverty, we have got the biggest investment in defence and security since the 1980s and our international standing has been restored. That is not just a plan; it is a plan being delivered.”
“I am pleased that net migration is down 82%, small boat crossings are down 40%, the asylum backlog is down, we are closing asylum hotels and we deported 70,000 people with no right to be here. That is what this Government are delivering.”
“This incident is completely unacceptable. Every customer deserves reliable, resilient services, particularly during extreme heat, when there is a risk to public health. The Water Minister has met the company’s leadership to demand improvements, and we will follow up in that way.”
“I pay heartfelt tribute to my hon. Friend for everything that she has done to campaign on and draw attention to this issue and for the very powerful and personal way in which she argues it. When she spoke in the House earlier this year, it was compelling <span id="933" class="column-number" data-column-number="933"></span>for all of us, for all the right reasons, and I thank her for that—I know she will continue to do so for many, many years to come, and rightly so.”
“I know that Reform believes in recycling politicians, but I wonder whether spending the summer arguing with a bin was what the hon. Gentleman had in mind when he defected to the Reform Benches.”
“I am proud of the fact that, because the usual frameworks would not work—the UN; the EU, which was blocked by Hungary; and NATO, which Ukraine is not in—we pulled together a coalition of the willing, led by the French and the UK, and now the Germans. I am honoured that we are joined in the Gallery by the Ukrainian ambassador. Let me say to him and to all Ukrainians: we are united in this House against Russian aggression. That work began before I was Prime Minister and will continue afterwards, b”
“I need to tread very carefully here. I got into a lot of trouble at a primary school when an eight-year-old encouraged me to do the “six-seven” thing, and the whole class joined in—it went viral. When I left, the headteacher told me sternly that it was against the school rules, and I have to say that I was totally pathetic and I simply said, “I didn’t start it”.”
Published video “Keir Starmer says thank you to the people who helped to deliver change”.
Published video “Keir Starmer: I will always stand side by side with our Jewish community”.
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AFP Fact Check rated the claim “Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner posed in Croatia jerseys during 2026 World Cup” Altered picture.
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fact checker rated the claim “Celebrations in the United Kingdom following Prime Minister Keir Starmers resignation.” fake.
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Full Fact rated the claim “As a former Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer will be entitled to a pension of £115,000 a year for the rest of his life.” This is misleading. The £115,000 figure is not a “pension”—it’s the maximum amount ex-PMs can be reimbursed each year to cover costs associated with duties undertaken in their role as former prime ministers..
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Awarded Order of Liberty (2026).
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Awarded Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour (2026).
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Lead Stories rated the claim “Keir Starmer said he will arrest Elon Musk and 336 million Americans for free speech on X” Didn't Say It.
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Full Fact rated the claim “A video shows Sir Keir Starmer responding to criticism of his government by TalkTV presenter Jeremy Kyle.” False. While this video contains a real clip of Mr Kyle, Mr Starmer’s response is AI-generated..
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Full Fact rated the claim “Prince William was critical of Sir Keir Starmer’s leadership and said it’s “unfair” for UK taxpayers to fund welfare for “non-citizens” while saying the concerns of other citizens are “racist”.” False. Prince William has made no such comments..
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Full Fact rated the claim “Andy Burnham has lost a Labour leadership contest twice—once to Sir Keir Starmer.” Incorrect. Mr Burnham has run in two Labour leadership contests and lost both, but Mr Starmer wasn’t a candidate on either occasion. Mr Burnham didn’t stand in the leadership contest Mr Starmer won in 2020..
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Full Fact rated the claim “The Supreme Court has ordered Keir Starmer to resign.” False. A spokesperson for the Supreme Court confirmed this isn’t true and that it doesn’t have the power to order politicians or government ministers to resign..
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Full Fact rated the claim “The Daily Mail published an article headlined “Members think Keir Starmer shouldn’t resign”.” This is fake. The Daily Mail published no such article, although it contains details of a real survey of Labour members..
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Two foreign nationals were convicted at the Old Bailey of conspiring to carry out arson on the property and on a vehicle connected to the Starmer family
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“s National Executive Committee to set the timetable for choosing his successor, with nominations due to open on 9 July and the process to conclude before the summer recess. Starmer is to remain in his positions until the conclusion of the leadership election. Starmer”
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Awarded Time 100 (2025).
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“s commitment to reaching 2.5% of GDP spending on defence by 2030 would be brought forward to April 2027. This would be funded by reducing the official development assistance budget from 0.5% to 0.3%. George Robertson, a former Secretary General of NATO and Labour politician, led the 2025 Strategic Defence Review to guide the future increased spending, with Starmer commenting that the UK was moving to”
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“s dual capable aircraft nuclear mission, which his office said would be”
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Time included him in the Time 100, its annual list of the world's 100 most influential people
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Campaign: 2024 general election.
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Career landmark: member of the 59th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2024).
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Career landmark: Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (2024–2026).
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Career landmark: First Lord of the Treasury (2024–2024).
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Career landmark: Minister for the Union (2024–2024).
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Career landmark: Minister for the Civil Service (2024–2024).
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Established Great British Energy and decriminalised abortion in England and Wales
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That he was "certain that we would lose the 2019 election"
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With blame placed on the party's stance on the Gazan genocide and green investment
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Involving Christopher Cash, a former parliamentary researcher, and Christopher Berry collapsed in September 2025 after the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) dropped charges under the Official Secrets Act
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In an interview during the 2024 general election campaign, Starmer said that his biggest fear about becoming prime minister was how it might impact his children, due to their "difficult ages" and how it would be easier if they were younger or older.
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During the 2024 general election campaign, Starmer said in an interview that he would try to avoid working on Friday evenings in order to observe Shabbat dinners and spend time with his family.
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On 26 December 2024, Starmer's brother Nick died following a cancer diagnosis.
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Starmer is an atheist and chose to take a "solemn affirmation" (rather than an oath) of allegiance to the monarch in 2022.
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Career landmark: Leader of the Labour Party (2020–2026).
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Career landmark: Leader of the Opposition (2020–2024).
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Career landmark: member of the 58th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2019–2024).
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Career landmark: member of the 57th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2017–2019).
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Career landmark: Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom (2017).
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Career landmark: Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union (2016–2020).
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Career landmark: Shadow Minister for Immigration (2015–2016).
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Career landmark: member of the 56th Parliament of the United Kingdom (2015–2017).
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That he believed the war was "not lawful under international law because there was no UN resolution expressly authorising it"
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Awarded Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (2014).
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Arguing that Serbia wanted to seize a third of Croatian territory during the Croatian War of Independence and eradicate the Croatian population
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Starmer announced changes to how sexual abuse investigations were to be handled amid Operation Yewtree, including a panel to review complaints
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The journalist Nick Cohen published allegations that Starmer was personally responsible for allowing the prosecution of Paul Chambers to proceed, in what became known as the "Twitter joke trial"
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Starmer said amid the subsequent scandal that "It was like a dam had bust and people rightfully wanted to know why he had been allowed to get away with it for so long
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“It was like a dam had bust and people rightfully wanted to know why he had been allowed to get away with it for so long.”
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Introduced changes that included the "first test paperless hearing"
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And the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair in 2005
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“s decision to prosecute three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer for offences relating to false accounting in the aftermath of the parliamentary expenses scandal, who were all found guilty. Starmer prioritised rapid prosecutions of rioters over long sentences during the 2011 England riots, which he later concluded helped to bring”
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Career landmark: Director of Public Prosecutions (2008–2013).
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Received the Bar Council's Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award for his contribution to pro bono legal work challenging the death penalty in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi and the Caribbean
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Starmer called his Queen's Counsel appointment "odd" as he had previously expressed support for the abolition of the monarchy
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And married on 6 May 2007 at the Fennes Estate near Bocking, Essex
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And disabled equipment in order to disrupt military operations at the start of the Iraq War
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Awarded King's Counsel (2002).
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When he was appointed Queen's Counsel (now King's Counsel)
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“I don’t think there are big issues on which I’ve changed my mind. The big issue we were grappling with then was how the Labour Party, or the left generally, bound together the wider movement and its strands of equality – feminist politics, green politics, LGBT – which I thought was incredibly exciting, incredibly important.”
Had hacked into US military databases looking for information on Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs), on an interdict that could have led to a seventy-year jail sentence
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Was a junior barrister on Lee Clegg's appeal
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Meeting the Russian chief justice Vyacheslav Lebedev, led the society's delegation to Northern Ireland during the Troubles, and organised the UK delegation to the 14th Congress of the International Association of Democra
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And worked primarily on human rights matters
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At the Middle Temple, then a bencher in 2009
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And received a postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law degree from St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1986
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Born 1962-09-02.
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“BBC News (31 January 2017) What”
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“], The Scotsman (7 November 2022). We took the decision to leave and we have left. So now what we need to do is rather than just sticking with the deal we”
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When Jeremy speaks about the way people are employed, the way young people are employed, when he talks about mental health, when he talks about housing, there is a huge consensus. Obviously, there are outlier issues where we’re going to have to find our way forward as a party. The test will be in two or three years’ time when we look at how Jeremy is doing then.
I thank the right hon. Gentleman for that really important question, and I will start by wishing him a very happy birthday. This issue is really important. I pay tribute to every volunteer; they show <span id="932" class="column-number" data-column-number="932"></span>incredible bravery in putting their lives at risk to save others. Our guiding principle is ensuring that we respond to this complex case by properly recognising their vital work. Ministers will continue to work with all parties, th
I thank my hon. Friend for her question, her support and her friendship for me, Vic and the kids. Whatever the challenge, she has always been there for us, particularly Vic and the kids, and I really thank her for that. This will be my last answer from this Dispatch Box. Every Prime Minister knows when they take up the torch that the day will come when they have to pass it on. That day has come for me. This is the end of my political journey. In six years, we went from historic defeat in 2019
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