Keir Starmer

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Keir Starmer (2017)

Sir Keir Starmer KCB , QC , PC (pronunciation: [ kɪə ˈstaːmə ]; born September 2, 1962 in Southwark , London ) is a British lawyer and politician . He is a member of the Labor Party and has been its chairman since April 4, 2020. He is also Leader of Her Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition in the lower house of the British Parliament .

Education and professional career

Keir Starmer is the son of a nurse and a toolmaker. Strong supporters of Labor, they named Keir after the party's first leader, Keir Hardie . Through good academic performance, he gained access to the grammar school (comparable to the German grammar school ). After leaving school, he studied law at the University of Leeds , where he became Bachelor of Laws graduate (LLB), then he graduated from the University of Oxford the Bachelor of Civil Law (CBL). In 1987 he became a lawyer admitted. From 2003 he was a human rights adviser to the Police Department Northern Ireland ( Northern Ireland Policing Board ). From 2008 to 2013 he was director of the Crown Prosecution Service , the UK prosecutor's office . During this time he pursued the prosecution against the Minister for Energy and Climate Change Chris Huhne , which led to his resignation.

politics

Keir Starmer is a member of the UK Parliament and has represented the London constituency of Holborn and St Pancras , which is considered a safe Labor constituency, since 2015 . He was able to defend this constituency in the 2019 general election. After the resignation of Ed Miliband , he was considered a possible candidate in the next election of the Labor party leader in 2015, but did not run due to his limited parliamentary experience and instead supported Andy Burnham . In the shadow cabinet of the new Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn , he initially held the function of a shadow minister in the interior department ( Shadow Home Office Minister ).

At the EU membership referendum in 2016 , he advocated remaining in the European Union . After the referendum, he and numerous other prominent Labor politicians resigned from his shadow cabinet in protest against the attitude of party chairman Corbyn and called for a change of party leadership. He supported Owen Smith against Corbyn in the election for party chairmanship that followed . However, after the latter won, he convened in October Starmer the United Kingdom and Gibraltar European Union membership referendum -Schattenminister ( Shadow Secretary of State for exiting the European Union ). Starmer gave up his position as an advisor at a law firm specializing in human rights cases . Following Corbyn's line of respecting the referendum, he voted, despite his pro-European stance, to authorize the government to submit the application to leave the EU, which was confirmed in March 2017 by Prime Minister Theresa May's letter under Article 50 of the EU Contract happened. However, he rejected the exit contracts that the Prime Minister had put to a vote in parliament. Since 2016 he has been in favor of a second referendum on the Brexit treaty that is in preparation. Contrary to the neutral stance of party leader Corbyn, he advocated a clear positioning of the Labor party in favor of the United Kingdom remaining in the EU. At the same time, he called for a fundamental change in terms of freedom of establishment in the EU and conceded that immigration to the United Kingdom was too high. He advocated freedom of establishment for workers in the future , while freedom of establishment itself should be changed.

2020 primary election of Labor chairman
candidate be right percent
Keir Starmer 275,780 56.2%
Rebecca Long-Bailey 135.218 27.6%
Lisa Nandy 079,597 16.2%

On January 4, 2020, Starmer announced his candidacy to chair the Labor Party . His two opposing candidates were Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy . Surveys predicted that he had a good chance of winning the election. The election was made by the Labor party members and declared Labor sympathizers and took place over three months. A little over 490,000 of the 784,151 entitled to vote took part. On April 4, 2020, Starmer's election victory was announced. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic , which took place at the same time and attracted almost all public attention , the choice had taken a back seat at this point in time. The next day, Starmer called his shadow cabinet, into which he appointed both former party leader Ed Miliband and the two defeated candidates Long-Bailey and Nandy. To this end, he installed Anneliese Dodds, the first woman to be shadow Chancellor of the Exchequer .

Immediately after his election as party chairman asked Starmer on behalf of the party in his first video message and in a letter to the Deputiertenausschus British Jews ( Board of Deputies of British Jews ) to apologize for anti-Semitism in his party. In June 2020, starmer Rebecca Long-Bailey fired from his shadow cabinet after approvingly shared an interview with actress Maxine Peake that contained anti-Semitic conspiracy theories on her Twitter account . In contrast to Peake, who retracted her statements as false and apologized, Long-Bailey had refused to delete her related tweets and apologize for this action. Starmer received the approval of various Jewish organizations in Great Britain and many MPs close to the former party leaders Tony Blair and Gordon Brown for the release. Criticism of the decision came from the left wing of the party. The first lightning polls on YouGov showed that a majority in both the population and the Labor Party welcomed Starmer's decision. Starmer appointed Kate Green to the shadow cabinet in place of Long-Bailey.

As an opposition leader, Starmer repeatedly criticized the conservative government for its mismanagement during the corona crisis. Most of all, he lamented the lack of testing capacity and, in that regard, the difference between the Johnson administration's promises and reality. In the wake of the rampant Black Lives Matter protests in Great Britain and the dispute over the removal of statues of historic greats, Starmer took on a mediator position. He criticized the protesters who had unauthorized torn down the statue of the slave trader Edward Colston in Bristol and sunk in the harbor, but conceded that the statue should not have been erected in the first place or should have been removed a long time ago.

Personal

Starmer has a son and a daughter with his wife Victoria Alexander, a solicitor , whom he married in 2007. The children are brought up in the Jewish faith , the religion of his wife. In 2014 Starmer was ennobled as Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath for “services to law and prosecution” and has since been allowed to call himself Sir Keir Starmer, but does not use this title.

Titles and awards

  • Appointed Queen's Counsel in 2002
  • During the New Year Honors he was by the Queen in 2014 for Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath beaten
  • Sworn in as a member of the Privy Council in 2017
  • Honorary doctorates from the Universities of Essex , Leeds, East London , London SE , Reading and Worcester
  • Honorary Fellowship at St. Edmund Hall, Oxford

Publications

  • Justice in Error , Blackstone Press, 1993, ISBN 1-85431-234-0 (with C. Walker)
  • The Three Pillars of Liberty , Routledge, 1996, ISBN 0-415-09641-3 (with F. Klug and S. Weir)
  • European Human Rights Law , Legal Action Group, 1999, ISBN 0-905099-77-X
  • Criminal Justice, Police Powers And Human Rights , Blackstone, 2001, ISBN 1-84174-138-8 (with M. Strange and Q. Whitaker)

Web links

Commons : Keir Starmer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Keir Starmer elected as new Labor leader. BBC, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Keir Starmer: 'I wouldn't characterize myself as a bleeding heart liberal. . . ' Guardian, accessed June 29, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Annual reports for the period April 1, 2005 - March 31, 2006 . Northern Ireland Policing Board, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  4. ^ A b Sir Keir Starmer, KCB, QC . Doughty Street Chambers, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Holborn & St Pancras / Parliamentary constituency . BBC , accessed December 13, 2019 .
  6. ↑ a b New Labor leader Keir Starmer vows to lead party into 'new era'. BBC News, April 4, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  7. ^ Labor leadership: Sir Keir Starmer enters race . BBC, accessed January 5, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Sir Keir Starmer takes lead in race to replace Corbyn - poll . Sky News , accessed January 5, 2020 .
  9. ^ Labor: Ed Miliband returns to Labor shadow cabinet. Retrieved April 6, 2020 .
  10. ↑ Great Britain. New Labor leader apologizes. In: juedische-allgemeine.de April 5, 2020.
  11. ^ Labor's Rebecca Long-Bailey sacked in anti-Semitism row. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . Rebecca Long-Bailey sacking reignites Labor turmoil over antisemitism. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . Maxine Peake's bizarre George Floyd claim. Retrieved June 25, 2020 . Labor leader Sir Keir Starmer sacks Rebecca Long-Bailey over 'antisemitic conspiracy theory' article. Retrieved June 27, 2020 (English).
  12. ↑ YouGov: Public back Keir Starmer's decision to sack Rebecca Long-Bailey but do not agree Boris Johnson should stand by Robert Jenrick. Retrieved June 26, 2020 (English). Labor anti-Semitism row: Keir Starmer 'stands by' Long-Bailey sacking. Accessed June 30, 2020 (English).
  13. ^ Labor party: Kate Green appointed as shadow education secretary. Accessed June 30, 2020 (English).
  14. ↑ Keir Starmer presses Boris Johnson over 'big gap' in test and trace. Retrieved June 24, 2020 .
  15. ↑ What Johnson's government wants to learn from Germany. Retrieved April 22, 2020 .
  16. ↑ Keir Starmer: pulling down Edward Colston statue was wrong. Retrieved June 8, 2020 .
  17. ^ After Corbyn, UK Labor elects Keir Starmer, Zionist with Jewish wife, as leader. The Times of Israel, April 4, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  18. ^ Labor leadership winner: Sir Keir Starmer. BBC News, April 4, 2020, accessed April 4, 2020 .
  19. ^ A b Sir Keir Starmer, Honorary Fellow . St Edmund Hall , Oxford, accessed April 6, 2019 .
  20. ↑ The New Year Honors List 2014 - Higher Awards . (PDF) assets.publishing.service.gov.uk, accessed April 6, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Starmer, Keir
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British lawyer and politician
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd September 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Southwark , London , United Kingdom