Keir Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer is a British lawyer and politician, born in 1962, who was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2026 and leader of the Labour Party from 2020 to 2026. He graduated in law from the University of Leeds in 1985 and took the Bachelor of Civil Law at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, in 1986. He became a barrister at Middle Temple in 1987, worked mainly in criminal defence specialising in human rights, was a human rights adviser to the Northern Ireland Policing Board and took silk as a Queen's Counsel in 2002. He was Director of Public Prosecutions and head of the Crown Prosecution Service from 2008 to 2013, handling cases including the Stephen Lawrence murder, and was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in 2014 for services to law and criminal justice.