BRITAIN-NEW LABOUR LEADER.
Anthony Akinola
Keir Starmer
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Sir Keir Starmer | |
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 Starmer in 2017 | |
| Leader of the Opposition | |
| Assumed office 4 April 2020 | |
| Monarch | Elizabeth II |
| Prime Minister | Boris Johnson |
| Preceded by | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Leader of the Labour Party | |
| Assumed office 4 April 2020 | |
| Deputy | Angela Rayner |
| Preceded by | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union | |
| In office 6 October 2016 – 4 April 2020 | |
| Leader | Jeremy Corbyn |
| Preceded by | Emily Thornberry |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras | |
| Assumed office 7 May 2015 | |
| Preceded by | Frank Dobson |
| Majority | 27,763 (48.9%) |
| Director of Public Prosecutions | |
| In office 1 November 2008 – 1 November 2013 | |
| Preceded by | Ken Macdonald |
| Succeeded by | Alison Saunders |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Keir Rodney Starmer[1] 2 September 1962 (age 57) Southwark, London, England |
| Political party | Labour |
| Spouse(s) | Victoria Alexander (m. 2007) |
| Children | 2 |
| Education | Reigate Grammar School |
| Alma mater | |
| Website | Official website |
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Director of Public Prosecutions Leader of the Opposition Leader of the Labour Party  | ||
Sir Keir Rodney Starmer KCB QC (born 2 September 1962) is a British politician who has been Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition since 2020. He has also been Member of Parliament for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015.
After qualifying for the bar, he acted exclusively as a defence lawyer specialising in human rights issues, before being appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 2002. In 2008, he became Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), holding these roles until 2013. For his role as Director of Public Prosecutions he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2014 New Year Honours.
Elected to the House of Commons in the 2015 general election, Jeremy Corbyn appointed Starmer as Shadow Minister of State for Immigration, a role from which Starmer resigned in 2016 in protest at Corbyn's leadership, along with numerous other Labour MPs. Starmer was later appointed to the Shadow Cabinet in October 2016 as Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, after the vote to leave the European Union. Starmer was a vocal advocate for a second referendum, stating he would have voted to remain. After Labour's defeat in the 2019 general election, Starmer was elected as the new Leader of the Labour Party on 4 April 2020.
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Early life and education
Keir Starmer was born in Southwark, London, on 2 September 1962.[2] He was one of five children of Josephine (née Baker), a nurse, and Rodney Starmer, a toolmaker. His mother had Still's disease.[3][4] Keir was named after the first Labour Party MP, Keir Hardie.[5] He passed the 11-plus examination and gained entry to Reigate Grammar School, then a voluntary aided state school, although it converted to an independent fee-paying grammar school in 1976 while he was there.[5] He studied law at the University of Leeds, graduating with a first class Bachelor of Laws (LLB) degree in 1985. He undertook postgraduate studies at St Edmund Hall, Oxford, graduating from the University of Oxford as a Bachelor of Civil Law (BCL) in 1986.[6]
Harrow, Kenneth
kenneth harrow
professor emeritus
dept of english
michigan state university
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