Critics say British Labour Party leader Keir Starmer is dutiful, managerial and a bit dull.
FILE - Britain's Shadow Brexit Secretary Keir Starmer speaks on stage during the Labour Party Conference at the Brighton Centre in Brighton, England, Monday, Sept. 23, 2019. The Labour Party hopes that is just what Britain needs. Starmer, the center-left party’s 61-year-old leader, is current favorite to win the country’sStarmer has spent four years as opposition leader dragging his social democratic party from the left towards the political middle ground.
Married with two teenage children, Starmer stresses his everyman credentials, especially his love of soccer and support for the Premier League team Arsenal, and his working-class roots. He is the son of a toolmaker and a nurse who named him after Keir Hardie, the Labour Party’s first leader. Starmer was elected to Parliament for a central London district in 2015, at an election that saw Labour defeated by the Conservatives. He often disagreed with then-leader Jeremy Corbyn, a staunch socialist, at one point quitting the party’s top team over disagreements, but agreed to serve as Labour’s Brexit spokesman under Corbyn.
After Corbyn led Labour to election defeats in 2017 and 2019 — the latter the party’s worst result since 1935 — the party picked Starmer to lead efforts to rebuild. Starmer’s challenge is to persuade voters that a Labour government can ease Britain’s chronic housing crisis and repair its fraying public services, especially the creaking health service — but without imposing tax increases or deepening the public debt.
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