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ByKeir Starmer
Keir Rodney Starmer is a Labour Party politician who became Prime Minister on 5 July 2024. He has been MP for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015 and leader of Labour since April 2020. Starmer, born in 1962, studied law at the University of Leeds and Oxford, then became a barrister specialising in human rights. In 2008 he was appointed director of public prosecutions, for a five-year term. Find news, comment, and analysis about him here.
Keir Starmer resigns
The Prime Minister made a statement outside No 10 this morning
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Will Keir Starmer resign?
The Prime Minister has not reached a final decision – and still sees several reasons why he shouldn’t go
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Only Keir Starmer can take Labour’s hope away now
After Makerfield, the prime minister must do the right thing and make way for Andy Burnham
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The grim truth behind the Starmer “rent boy” conspiracy
After three arson attacks on the PM’s property, social media caught fire
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How British politics became a brand war
Voters are shopping for a better deal
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Hubris and human cloning at London’s AI summit
At a balding, besuited republic in Shadwell, I met a new set of salesman
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Keir Starmer has a people problem
He seems to lack the basic social skills necessary for survival
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Letter of the week: A not-so-corny notion
Write to letters@newstatesman.co.uk to have your thoughts voiced in the New Statesman magazine
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I am filled with a menacing fear for the future
The Titanic on the horizon haunts my imagination
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Only a Burnham-Streeting alliance can save Labour
It’s not impossible
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PMQs: Starmer clashes with Farage over Henry Nowak
The Prime Minister insisted that “we must not allow this tragedy to be hijacked”
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Six things we learned from the Mandelson files
Peter Mandelson accused Keir Starmer of lacking “verve”
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Labour’s war of words
Has the party’s battle of ideas come too late?
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The fight for No 11
Also: sober frustrations, and learning from Robert Skidelsky
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Tony Blair’s encyclical for Keir Starmer
The former PM intervenes on Labour’s future
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What Britain won’t face
The country has chosen delusion over reality
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Is Makerfield a dead end for the Greens?
Internal division over whether to run a “full campaign” is a sign of things to come
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Andy Burnham is a Starmerite
Should he ever become prime minister, we will have the same government with a different accent
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Wes Streeting’s “battle of ideas”
We are getting a sense of what the former health secretary would do in government
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