PMQs: Keir Starmer plays Rishi Sunak and Tory MPs off against each other
The Labour leader’s strategy on the Northern Ireland protocol is to let the Conservative Party cannibalise itself.
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.
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