Paul Bint, who had masqueraded as multiple QCs over the years, began hooking up with women via lonely hearts columns by telling them he was in fact Keir Starmer. One cabinet minister told us: He is by miles the best candidate. The family lived in Surrey and were strong supporters of the And within five minutes he was on the phone, saying, What can I do? The next day, I was going to visit the bereaved family. The accident has been a huge shock for his wife, Victoria Alexander, and their two children, aged 11 and 9. Their union was blessed with four kids. Keir Starmer regrets not having closer relationship with difficult father, Labour leader reveals 'He was incredibly hard working. Starmer in the House of Commons in January 2019. One day, Vickers came back from work to find two burglars carrying their television and video recorder down the stairs. So despite the rumoured links betweenSir Keir and Mark Darcy, their similarities seem to remain purely visual - what with Bridget revealing in the film that her heartthrob votes Tory. WebTheir leader has a history of racist statements and his entire Brexit plan relies on cosying up with the most notorious dog-whistling fascist of our times, Donald Trump. Farm Heroes Saga, the #4 Game on iTunes. He was completely motivated in all he did in the law by politics., That work ethic comes up repeatedly in interviews with those who know Starmer well. And he spoke about his love of football, saying he plays every week. 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He is also the only man in the contest, despite conceding that Labour is long overdue in electing a woman as leader (just not right now). Politics always dictated the work he did.. This is, in case anyone had failed to notice, even further south than north London. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Keir Starmer with fellow leadership candidates (from left) Emily Thornberry, Lisa Nandy and Rebecca Long-Bailey, Feb. 2. Contact Emily Ashton at emily.ashton@buzzfeed.com. He's got a very sharp mind and is very articulate. Who are they protecting and from what?. Here is a man who stood up for the ordinary people, it says: defending the print workers in Wapping, the dockers in Dover, the poll tax protesters, the miners, the environmental activists and, later, prosecuting those at the heart of the establishment. His father worked in a factory as a toolmaker and his mother was a nurse. Sir Keir Starmer took over the leadership of the Labour Party in April 2020 - weeks after the Covid pandemic had taken hold in the UK. This was the mid-1980s, when Margaret Thatcher reigned supreme. It deserves much better than what its getting now.. One said: Ive had to spend money on those funny dresses you wear on Sky News just so I look like a politician. Sarah Champion, elected for Labour in a by-election in 2012, was told on being selected that she had unparliamentary hair, which she eventually decided meant she wasnt a man. Sir Keir said his father worked as a toolmaker in a factory and would work 14-hour days, coming home for an hour at 17:00 "for his tea" before returning to work So its a kind of heightened imposter syndrome? ', "And that was tough. He was somebody who was well known and well loved, and I texted Keir to let him know, she said. Then he went back to Parliament with nobody the wiser.. The human rights activist who became a top prosecutor. Only 1 a week after your trial. ", But Sir Keir adds: "I wouldn't say we were close. Starmer, who represented the National Council for Civil Liberties, argued that Thames Valley Police had acted unlawfully by setting up roadblocks and confiscating sound equipment to prevent a rave from taking place. WebIn March 2018, Starmer told the BBCs Nick Robinson that his father was a toolmaker working in a factory and working every hour, basically. After he left school, Starmer took a gap year and spent several months working in the factory with him. Starmer is, arguably, too bland for that, and not political enough. Nigel Greenhalgh of Surrey-based Village Developments told the Mail on Sunday that the plot was worth a lot of money, probably around 1.5 million per acre, so you are looking at 10 million in all. He points to his campaign team as proof he is serious about uniting the warring factions. As recently as January 19 a huge cannabis factory was busted by police along Slade Road, which led to the discovery of 200,000 worth of plants. ', And one person added: 'Finding outKeir Starmer was the inspo forMark Darcyin Bridget Jones Diary has fully blown my mind. So, actually, my background isnt what people think it is - I know what its like, he said. It makes you feel as though you dont fully belong, as though people might find it easier to find you out if you are conspicuous. "I remember one occasion when I was about 13 or 14, my dad phoning me from the hospital and saying 'I don't think mum's going to make it, will you tell the others? But Starmer insists he has not changed. The path into politics often irons out individuality from people who fear they wont fit in. He wrote articles bitterly attacking the police for their conduct during the 1986 Wapping industrial dispute between disgruntled print workers and Rupert Murdoch's newspaper company. Starmer became a Queens Counsel and joint head of Doughty Street Chambers in 2002. In fact, its been noted how strange it is for a potential party leader to have not amassed any real enemies in Parliament. Brooks was acquitted but features prominently in his campaign video. Who was Keir Starmer's dad Rodney? Keir Starmer is the son of Rodney and Josephine Starmer and he was the second of four children. The family lived in Surrey and were strong supporters of the Labour Party. The Spectator argues that, as an outsider, Starmer has learned to look the part. Its a reflection on the legal profession that they thought she had taken a step down, he added. "He stopped drinking completely just in case he ever needed to get to the hospital with her. BuzzFeed News contacted author Helen Fielding to establish the truth behind the claims, but she remained enigmatic on the subject. 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He also picked a Northern Soul record - Dobie Gray's Out On The Floor - saying it reminded him of his "early days in London with a group of friends in a really grotty flat above a sauna and massage parlour that kept interesting hours". The world order is changing in his favour, Harry, Meghan and the rise and fall of the folie deux. Behind the scenes, some Labour MPs bemoan Starmers safe campaign just as Johnson relied on a drama-free campaign during the election to get him over the line and hope he will show a firmer sense of his political vision, and more personality, if he becomes leader on April 4. Tatchell said Starmer would make a fine Labour leader but said he hoped he would take on some of the very thoughtful, intelligent proposals made by Clive Lewis, the left-wing Labour MP who dropped out of the leadership contest in the early stages. Starmer met his wife when she was working for a firm, preparing case files for him before he went into court. But the Shadow Brexit Secretary's town was Oxted, Surrey once named the 20th richest in Britain and his house had that middle-class staple an Aga. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has spoken of his regret at not being close to his late father, who he described as a "difficult" and "complicated" man. US residents can opt out of "sales" of personal data. Vickers, a journalist at Private Eye magazine, died in 2017. He worked as a tool maker on a And so you learn to fit in. Starmer won after a single round of voting, giving him a powerful mandate for leadership; trouncing his competitors, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy. Sir Keir Starmer spoke about his troubled relationship with his father, and his chronically ill mother, in a wide-ranging interview for BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs.. His father worked in a factory as a toolmaker and his mother was a nurse. "I had no intention of purging anyone. Heather Williams, then the deputy head of chambers, remembered him juggling his work and football commitments at weekends. Point proven: he has risen from a humble background. Despite being beaten by an Old Etonian with de Pfeffel as his middle name, the Labour Party has descended into a rather predictable round of the Four Yorkshiremen, with competing factions arguing variously that voters in former red wall seats will only return to Labour if it is led by a northerner, a woman and preferably someone who grew up in a cardboard box. One recent focus group described him as quite boring and corporate, somebody at home in a big room with very high-powered people, not somebody for the people. This isnt something that occurs to those who arent worried about their social status because they are already from the sort of backgrounds that regularly send people into professions and even Parliament. What do we know about Sir Keir Starmers wife, Lady Starmer? One of the new works by Banksy, appears to show a 1950s housewife, wearing a classic blue pinny and yellow washing up gloves, with a swollen eye and a missing tooth seemingly shoving her male partner into a chest freezer, the piece is set on a white wall backdrop in Kent. The Royal Mint of a 50p coin featuring Professor Albus Dumbledore as part of a Harry Potter-themed collection. Keir Starmer happens to be the second child. Labour had a Regardless, of course, of whether the wider electorate really gives a damn about where you were born. He worked as a tool maker on a factory floor all of his life, Find your bookmarks in your Independent Premium section, under my profile, Labour leader Keir Starmer has revealed his complex relationship with his distant father in an interview with Desert Island Discs. Georgia Gould, Labour leader of Camden council where Starmer is now the local MP, told BuzzFeed News: I say to him, It's alright. But rumours Colin Firth's brooding character was based onLabour leadership hopeful Sir Keir Starmer have refused to go away since emerging in 2014. A stylish new drama directed by Lena Dunham, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Fire knocks out half of Argentina's power grid, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, Starbucks illegally fired workers over union - judge, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine. Earlier on this year, when he was clearly preparing the ground for a leadership campaign, he told a fringe at the Labour Party conference that it wasnt even fair to say he was part of a London elite of politicians, pointing out that his family hadnt even lived in north London and had instead been based on the Surrey/Kent border. "Hes not a particularly clubbable figure; he is a man alone, he said. Let's talk about it. He was a very high-profile, busy man at the time but he took the time, you know, which I think is a measure of his character and integrity.. He blends magnificently. As a politician, nothings changed. As a child, Sir Keir was not close with his dad, Rodney, and his mother Josephine was very very ill. Really really. He said it was really incredibly cheap but really grungy, and their landlord was eventually sent to prison for living off the earnings of prostitutes. A few days after the accident happened in January, Starmer told an audience in Stratford, east London, that he was in awe of the NHS staff treating her in intensive care. We really rely on him, you know, when things get difficult now.. Most of the 80-strong crowd get to their feet and applaud. Starmers role as shadow Brexit secretary only compounds that; allies say he eventually succeeded in bringing together a deeply fractured party, but critics say Labours ultimately convoluted stance only managed to alienate both Leavers and Remainers. SIR Keir Starmer hid a secret land ownership worth tens of thousands of pounds from Commons chiefs for eight years. "My mum was very, very ill all of her life and my dad knew exactly the symptoms of everything that might possibly go wrong with my mum, he knew exactly what drugs or combination of drugs or injection would be needed. It was the same in 2015, people said, Were not voting for you; you dont have any money left., We havent had message discipline and message clarity for some time now. ', The rumour comes after Sir Keir, 57, tried to dial down claims his wealthy background, with the QC, who owns and lives in a 1.75million house in Camden with his lawyer wife Victoria, saying last month: 'My background isn't what people think it is. 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Despite all you would assume about this clean-cut figure; a private boarding school followed by a turn at Oxbridge where he might have joined Boris and David at the Bullingdon? That was really tough. But it was incredibly convenient, right opposite the tube.. He also interviewed left-wing icon Tony Benn at his home, who insisted that he sit in a chair that once belonged to Labours first parliamentary leader, Keir Hardie, because Starmer was named after him. The local Surrey council is reportedly under pressure to provide thousands of new homes, and has accepted it must sacrifice areas of its green belt in order to meet targets. I will lead this great party into a new era, with confidence and hope, so that when the time comes, we can serve our country again in government.'. But he has certainly put in the groundwork; he endlessly toured seats around the country last year, visiting MPs and giving speeches at local party dinners, despite his heavy workload as shadow Brexit secretary. Its wrong, it does affect things, and we do need to do something about it, he told the audience. In the interview, Sir Keir also talked about how his political beliefs had shifted, and his aim to unite Labour. Critics say this is wishful thinking on his part and that Starmer will always be remembered as a Remain pin-up. "I didn't want that day to end in the way it did," he said, of the day the report into anti-Semitism in Labour was published. Sir Keir Starmer has opened up about his complicated relationship with his father during an interview on the BBC Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs. But underlining this apparent call for further state intervention, Starmer also pointed to the falsehoods put out by the Conservative party in this election, sometimes amplified by the press, saying: Theres an urgent need to look at how that all operates., Just six days later, Starmer launched a rallying cry for press freedom after a number of political journalists were turned away from a briefing in Downing Street. He also served as human rights adviser to the Northern Ireland Policing Board. "But he had this utter devotion and commitment to my mum," said Sir Keir. Commentator George Monbiot said at the time: This is a moment in which the pomp and majesty of the law falls away to reveal a squalid little stitch-up. Starmer reversed his decision in 2011 following an inquest into Tomlinsons death. But that does come at a significant price.. WebPersonality at least with a big P remains a problem. He gets mixed reviews from Tory MPs. Im not a millionaire, he reportedly claimed. Then just 1 a week for full website and app access. Starmer had always had half an eye on getting into politics and made the leap when the safe Labour seat of Holborn and St Pancras was vacated by veteran MP Frank Dobson in 2015 (insiders point out that Starmer had been showing his face at local community events long before then). Is it absolutely accurate? She quite indignantly, quite rightly, said: Absolutely. She says she then put the phone down and said: Who the fuck does he think he is? They married in 2007. Police respond to reporters of a swan being removed from the harbour by a drunk male before it being involved in a collision on Mutley Plain. Now, Starmer is dealing with yet more personal tragedy at another key moment in his political career. The Labour frontrunner was raised in the the affluent stockbroker-belt town of Oxted (file image) in Surrey, despite his claims of a more humble upbringing. Do not sell or share my personal information. Emily Ashton is a senior political correspondent for BuzzFeed News and is based in London. Something for everyone interested in hair, makeup, style, and body positivity. Starmer wrote several articles himself, including one about the dispute between Rupert Murdoch and print workers in Wapping and the policing methods at the picket line. Englands Ollie Chessum dives in to score his sides second try during the Guinness Six Nations match at Twickenham Stadium, London, Sam Smith arrives for the Brit Awards ceremony, A robin redbreast takes flight in Dublins botanic gardens. Discover unique things to do, places to eat, and sights to see in the best destinations around the world with Bring Me! For reasons best known to himself, Keir Starmer did not use any of these opportunities to explain that his father, in fact, ran his own business, the Oxted Tool Company. The comments below have not been moderated. In Blackburn, Starmer confronted this head-on: We need a very clear plan to make sure we can win those seats back. Starmers appointment as head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2008 confounded many people: the human rights activist turned chief prosecutor for the state. Rodneys wife Josephine, a nurse, was forced to give up work because she had Stills disease, a rare autoimmune disease which gradually robbed Sir Keirs mother of her speech and movement. He told Lauren Laverne on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, that he was "determined that my relationship with my own children will be different". Starmer said he, like many others, had been told by voters that they couldnt back Corbyn but he insisted their views had been tainted by inaccurate media portrayals. Falconer said that Starmers open-door approach over Brexit eventually united most of the parliamentary party, which was pretty impressive. And while Sir Keir has made frequent reference to his tool maker father, dad Rodney once boasted that he ran his own factory. If youre from a manual labouring background and you become a lawyer, as Starmer did, then you might find it easier to imitate your legal peers than try to go against the grain. Starmer paces in front of the audience, his voice raised: We can mope around for the next four years, taking lumps out of each other. I can do this one. Asked by presenter Lauren Laverne about his parents and upbringing in Oxted, Surrey, Sir Keir, 58, said: "I don't often talk about my dad. He said: The way he did it was treading the minefield and getting a policy that ultimately he believed in over a long period of time, rather than briefing the media, flouncing out, complaining bitterly about it. But he was incredibly hard-working.". Isabel Hardman is assistant editor of The Spectator and author of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians. But its clear that Labours long-winded handling of Brexit culminating in a policy that satisfied neither true Remainers nor Leavers played a big part in the brutal general election result, and Starmer has been blamed for that. And I again texted him and said, I really don't expect you to be able to get down from Parliament but he just got on the tube, came down, and spent over an hour sitting with the family, listening to them. The 61-year-old writer may have met the politician when she lived in Morley, Leeds, while Sir Keir read law at the city's university, or as his career blossomed while she was a journalist. or we can pick ourselves up, and we say, We can change this if we pull together.. He worked as a tool maker on a factory floor all of his life, Sir Keir said. I think it would be a great asset if he can work on a sense of humour as well. For a while now, Ive been buried deep in a vault in theDaily Telegraphgoing through the Matt Hancock files. 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Within a few years, he was working as a barrister with Doughty Street Chambers, a group well known for its work on human rights and civil liberties whose notables now include Amal Clooney. The Evening Standard writes about his main battle being one against his own self-image. Please refresh the page or navigate to another page on the site to be automatically logged inPlease refresh your browser to be logged in, 'He was incredibly hard working. Starmer's wife, Victoria, (right) speaks to MP Lucy Powell at a campaign event. Starmer was just out of university when Vickers asked him to move in. He has spent the past few days trying to overcome this great disadvantage as much as he has tried to articulate what he would actually stand for as Labour leader, telling the Today programme that my background isnt what they think it is. There he shared violin lessons with Norman Cook, aka Fatboy Slim, and sought out friends who were also interested in politics. "I wouldn't say we were close. She was in and out of hospital with a rare illness which eventually forced her to stop Whereas usually the young socialist group was sort of further to the extreme, our group was very mainstream.. He added being named Keir - after Keir Hardie, founder of the Labour Party - earned him "plenty of nicknames at school". He said his mother died just a few weeks before he was elected into Parliament as an MP in 2015, and his father died a couple of years ago. Video, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat, Listen: Keir Starmer on Desert Island Discs, recent decision to suspend former leader Jeremy Corbyn, Thrillingly tense, belly-laugh funny and mind-warpingly weird - we've got your lockdown weekend sorted, Colleagues, turned lovers, turned enemies. Starmers parents were animal lovers who rescued donkeys and Great Danes in their spare time (Whenever one of us left home, they were replaced with a donkey, Starmer has said). In the queue for the bus, he would be the person leading the conversation and telling the jokes., The pair were both in the East Surrey Young Socialists, which Starmer has since described as being very radical but not very big. He didn't particularly like to socialise, so he wouldn't really go out very much.. For me, what Im driven by in this is the very deep inequalities that weve now got across the country of every sort: Income, wealth, health, influence, its deeply ingrained. He said that did not mean an endless debate about nationalising services, but a very forward-looking radicalism. ", "He was a difficult man, a complicated man, he kept himself to himself, he didn't particularly like to socialise, so wouldn't really go out very much. ', But one man wrote: 'I had a moment of utter despair yesterday when I heard the rumour thatMark Darcyin Bridget Jones's Diary is based onKeir Starmer. He talked of his regret that his relationship with his father, a toolmaker, was not better. 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