Starmers current image as an apparently corporate establishment figure is at odds with the life he led in his early twenties. We really rely on him, you know, when things get difficult now.. I was involved in helping to defend two Balochistan activists who the government of Pakistan was trying to frame on terrorism charges, he said. Labour has just a handful. 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. He married Josephine Baker was a nurse who died sadly out of Stills disease. Some MPs think Starmers dedication to his work will make him a dangerous opponent for laid-back Johnson, while others dismiss him as lacking in personality and charm. This is an issue close to his heart: His wife, who used to be a solicitor, now works in the local NHS hospital in occupational health and is overburdened in her team with too much to do. Isabel Hardman is assistant editor of The Spectator and author of Why We Get the Wrong Politicians. He is a Northerner only in London terms, and as former Director of Public Prosecutions, doesnt sound like hes come from a tough background. The property also backed on to beautiful countryside. And he spoke about his love of football, saying he plays every week. But he also remembers spending long, horrendous nights with her in the local hospitals high-dependency unit as she received treatment for a disease that was causing her so much pain. It deserves much better than what its getting now.. The Labour leader, who grew up in a left-wing working class family in Surrey, said he was not especially close to his father, Rodney, a toolmaker, who he described as a difficult man. The Evening Standard writes about his main battle being one against his own self-image. 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. Starmer met his wife when she was working for a firm, preparing case files for him before he went into court. Starmer meets nurses during a visit to Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire. I assume that left to his own devices, Keir would have had a more explicit second referendum position. But we weren't close. Sir Keir claimed that clashes between union members and the police led 'to the question of the role the police should play, if any, in civil society'. Among the songs that Sir Keir chose were the England football anthem Three Lions by The Lightning Seeds, and Jim Reeves' Welcome To My World, which was his mother's favourite song. The Mail on Sunday published a story lambasting Sir Keir Starmer over the weekend and ruffled a few feathers in the process. The pairs' career paths even show similarities, as they both rose to prominence taking on pro-bono cases and as defence lawyers. Read about our approach to external linking. "He stopped drinking completely just in case he ever needed to go to the hospital with her.. The Tories have done it in just a few words Take back control, Get Brexit done, Oven ready. 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. Now he wants to lead Labour when the party is at its lowest ebb, when it needs to gain 124 more seats to win a majority of just one at the next election (Weve got a mountain to climb, he often says, solemnly). There are bigger challenges too: his knighthood and five-year stint as director of public prosecutions (DPP), not to mention his central London constituency, mean he struggles to escape the establishment tag. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer attempts to reposition the Labour Party in a major speech to conference in Liverpool. 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.. One close ally described him as a bit shy and someone who feels uncomfortable being open about his life outside work. The latter case was made into a documentary film, McLibel, by Franny Armstrong and Ken Loach, an old friend of Corbyns. Cooper said: "We were, slightly weirdly, young socialists in a very, very safe Tory seat. The accident has been a huge shock for his wife, Victoria Alexander, and their two children, aged 11 and 9. Starmer, who became a member of Parliament in 2015 after a long and high-profile legal career, will not fit neatly into a political box. 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. It needs to be professionalised, and workers need better respect, he said. Harry Coles, a right-leaning journalist who wrote the story (and is also the ex boyfriend of First Fiance Carrie Symonds) also details how Sir Keir played down his wealth during the recent Labour leadership campaign. I want the Labour Party to be a broad church.". 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. He soon discovered that various windows were broken, there was a big hole in the kitchen floor (which grew in size over the years), and it was located above a sauna and massage parlour. Obsessed with travel? Who are they protecting and from what?. He added being named Keir - after Keir Hardie, founder of the Labour Party - earned him "plenty of nicknames at school". The pressure is even stronger for women, who are already working against the perception that a Member of Parliament is a man. Still, it was just across from the tube station and the rent was low. But the myth is exploded by the reports from multiple sources, which Starmer has never challenged or corrected, that his father owned the factory in which he worked The human rights activist who became a top prosecutor. Starmers team denies he has long been preparing to succeed Corbyn as leader. Regardless, of course, of whether the wider electorate really gives a damn about where you were born. Whereas usually the young socialist group was sort of further to the extreme, our group was very mainstream.. Starmer in the House of Commons in January 2019. Falconer said that Starmers open-door approach over Brexit eventually united most of the parliamentary party, which was pretty impressive. Then just 1 a week for full website and app access. Theyll go for you too! one man shouted from his seat. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Yeah, it's a bit hidden.. Published: 08:42 EST, 12 January 2020 | Updated: 10:06 EST, 12 January 2020. Long-Bailey has taken a swipe at him vowing to end the gentlemens club at Westminster but Starmer is cut from a different kind of cloth and cannot be unimaginably, and incorrectly, bracketed in that group. Starmer has cancelled a number of campaign events. Keir Starmer has given a lot of stump speeches so far in this Labour leadership campaign but never before in a venue like this. This is how Starmer sums up his legal career in his leadership launch video: Standing up for the powerless and against the powerful. The four-minute film intersperses grainy footage of protests against Margaret Thatcher with moody shots of former mineworkers and images of MPs and media bosses outside court. His three years at the side of Jeremy Corbyn, the man widely blamed for Labours worst election defeat since 1935, angers many voters who believe he did not do enough to stop the party hurtling out of control. "I had no intention of purging anyone. Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies. She was in and out of hospital with a rare illness which eventually forced her to stop working. 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. Cooper lived in the four-bed flat before Starmer did. Andrew Cooper, the Conservative peer and co-founder of polling firm Populus, caught the bus to school with him. The running joke on Radio Fours The News Quiz is even that he is too gorgeous to be true. Social media users seemed split over the rumour the politician could have been the real Mr Darcy. WebPersonality at least with a big P remains a problem. Medicaid to cut 14 MILLION Americans from health coverage as states crack down on eligibility for the first time in three years after numbers soared during COVID - so are you at risk? The difference is presumably that Phillips hasnt felt the need to sound and look like she fits into the smooth political world because she already knows that she does. Keir Starmer is the son of Rodney and Josephine Starmer and he was the second of four children. As a politician, nothings changed. He kept himself to himself. (His team points out that his complicated, detail-heavy Brexit brief has made it difficult for him to show much personality.) He backed Andy Burnham in that summers contest; when Corbyn won by a landslide, Starmer accepted a job as shadow home office minister. Starmer won after a single round of voting, giving him a powerful mandate for leadership; trouncing his competitors, Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy. In Blackburn, Starmer confronted this head-on: We need a very clear plan to make sure we can win those seats back. Desert Island Discs is on BBC Radio 4 at 11:00 GMT on Sunday, or listen later. Instead he steadily worked to persuade the leadership team without falling out with or complaining about them.. Starmers appointment as head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2008 confounded many people: the human rights activist turned chief prosecutor for the state. ", But Sir Keir adds: "I wouldn't say we were close. Sir Keir added: "As young children we spent a lot of time in and out of high dependency units with my mum, thinking we were going to lose her. Starmer faced fury in 2010 when he refused to prosecute a police officer involved in the killing of newspaper vendor Ian Tomlinson, who died after being pushed to the ground during the G20 protests the year before. Which through law and on to parliament, Starmer has done. "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? In the interview, Sir Keir also talked about how his political beliefs had shifted, and his aim to unite Labour. "His public persona, I think, comes across as quite sort of dour and a bit wooden and a bit self-important, and that is not him at all, he told BuzzFeed News. 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". Our NHS is the best in the world. Labour leadership winner: Sir Keir Starmer, Angry protests erupt over Greek rail disaster, Explosive found in check-in luggage at US airport, 1894 shipwreck confirms tale of treacherous lifeboat. Assistant Editor Isabel Hardman writes, 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. BuzzFeed News contacted author Helen Fielding to establish the truth behind the claims, but she remained enigmatic on the subject. Last year, he told of his mothers pride in the NHS: In that high-dependency unit, near death, where they werent sure they had the facilities for her, she held my arm and said: You wont let your dad go private, will you?. Start your Independent Premium subscription today. "He was incredibly hard working. 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. His spokesman insisted he was a 'proud socialist' who was standing for the leadership 'because of his determination to deliver a radical Labour Government at the next Election'. 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. "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. Is Putin winning? Labour was in an impossible position. No commitment. 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