Son of a worker and a nurse. Starmer grew up in the small town of Oxted, England, and was the first in his family to complete a higher education degree. According to the Labour Party, he graduated in law from the University of Leeds in 1987 and “spent a lot of time providing free legal advice, protecting ordinary people against the powerful”.
Relation to socialism. His parents, who had always supported the Labour Party, signed him up for the party’s Socialist Youth Group when he was a teenager. In the 1980s and 1990s, Starmer wrote columns for the left-wing magazines “Socialist Alternatives” and “Socialist Lawyer”. In interviews, he has said that “he is a socialist” and that his politics are motivated by “a strong desire to fight inequality and injustice”.
The ideology is called “Starmerism”. The political ideas and objectives sought by Labour were termed “Starmerism”, which she defined in an interview with Time magazine as “the recognition that the UK economy needs to be fixed. The recognition that solving the climate crisis is not just an obligation, it’s the greatest opportunity we have for our country’s future. The recognition that public services need to be improved, that all children and all British people should have the best opportunities and that we need a safe environment, safe streets and so on.”
Labour holds a knighthood from Queen Elizabeth II. The honour was imposed in 2014 for Starmer’s work as Director of Public Prosecutions, a legal position responsible for handling all prosecutions in the country.
“I changed the Labour Party forever,” Starmer says. In a recent interview with the BBC, he said the British can trust him, and added that he is someone who “always puts country first and party second”. He added, “I worked for four and a half years to change this Labour Party and now I have the opportunity to bring it to the country.”
The outlook is negative for conservatives
Polls show the Labour Party making a wide advantage. A poll conducted by British broadcaster BBC shows 45% intend to vote for the Labour Party, while 23% intend to vote for the Conservative Party, according to data compiled as of May 24. Today, most analysts consider a victory for current Prime Minister Rishi Sunak over Keir Starmer in the July 4 elections to be very unlikely. “If there were a change, it would be truly historic,” he explains. uol Kai Enno Lehmann, professor at IRI-USP (Institute of International Relations at the University of São Paulo).
