Elected in a majority with 408 seats, the Labor Party led by Keir Starmer will lead the British Parliament. This is the first time in 14 years that the Prime Minister is not from the Conservative Party.
Its origins
Aged 61, Keir Starmer comes from a modest social background. He wants to remind “my father is a toolmaker and my mother is a nurse”. It’s a phrase he often repeated during his campaign to the point where it was mocked by his conservative opponents. Growing up in the inner suburbs of London, in Oxted in Surrey with his two sisters and brother, Keir Starmer took his first name from the founder of the Labor Party, Keir Hardie. His father was often absent while his mother suffered from a rare joint disease that prevented her from walking. On the Labor website, the English Labor Party, Keir Starmer declares thanks to this “ have deep gratitude for the National Health Service”.
His career
He performs studied law at Leeds then at Oxford and began his career as a lawyer in 1987. His specialty is the defense of human rights. He is first and foremost a lawyer for unions fighting against the death penalty in the Caribbean, Kenya, Mali and Uganda. In 2000, he also advised the police on the issue of human rights. In 2008 he finished Director of Public Prosecutions of England and Wales before starting a political career from 2015. It is thanks to all these experiences that Keir Starmer, declared to AFP, that he is deeply concerned by “equality, human rights, social justice and reducing the gap between rich and poor”.
Reform the Labor Party
After his career as a lawyer, he became an MP in 2015 in the constituency of Holborn and Saint-Pancras in north London for the Labor Party. He climbed the political ladder and in 2016 became the spokesperson for his political camps on the issue of Brexit. Firmly opposed to the implementation of Brexit, he called for a second referendum. He is in charge of his party in 2020 after being elected with more than 50% of the votes against his predecessor Jeremy Corbin. One of his first measures is to fight against the anti-Semitism which is eroding his party from within.
In his program, the current Prime Minister defends a center-left policy in the British political spectrum. He is focusing his program more centrally in order to be less divisive for voters. He pays close attention to the situation of businesses in his country and advocates budgetary seriousness when his country is in crisis. He has a firm policy on immigration. Despite campaign promises such as the nationalization of water and energy companies or the abolition of tuition fees for students, Keir Starmer has had to forget his promises by justifying itself by the poor situation of public finances.
During his speech outside 10 Downing Street, the Prime Minister welcomed his new government and having put the Labor Party back at the center of power.
