How an illustrious legal career laid the groundwork for Labour leader’s life as a politician
When a young Keir Starmer turned up to the interview for his first job as a barrister wearing a cardigan, senior counsel had to be persuaded to take him on. “Keir interviewed badly. He lacked confidence and dress sense and looked about 14,” said Geoffrey Robertson KC, the founder of Doughty Street Chambers, who recruited Starmer. “But he turned out, as could be predicted from his written work, to be brilliant — my new secret weapon.
Where Macdonald had visited every CPS office in the country at least once in his tenure, Starmer tried to visit them at least once a year, according to one person who worked with him at the CPS, though the geographical spread of the organisation changed during Starmer’s term.
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