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Who is Keir Starmer, the ex-prosecutor and son of two workers who will make Labor great again

2024-07-05 09:30:39Kosova&Bota SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX

Who is Keir Starmer, the ex-prosecutor and son of two workers who will make

And while a right-wing wind blows in Europe, the United Kingdom turns to the left.

Taking the wheel will be a 61-year-old Labor MP, ex-human rights lawyer, ex-chief attorney for England and Wales, and huge Arsenal fan, and good football player in weekly 5-on-5 matches with friends .

But how did Keir Starmer manage to become Prime Minister and change the direction of his country after 14 years of Conservative government?

Who really is this Sir (Sir), title taken for the office of magistrate, son of a laborer and a nurse, the first in his family to graduate?

And who is Victoria, known as Vic to her husband, a 50-year-old Jewish lawyer determined to protect her and their two children's privacy even after moving to Downing Street, and therefore already named "Reluctant First Lady"?

Proud to be from a working-class background, Starmer recently recalled that, in order to make ends meet, his parents were at one point forced to give up their phones. The desire to excel comes from there, to the point where he stopped taking flute lessons when he realized his limits. He joined Labor at the age of 16. Law degree from Leeds, MA from Oxford, brilliant career as a barrister, high-ranking barrister dealing with human rights, then king's counsel, finally appointed attorney general. Hunting down terrorists and narcotics, he realizes that he can also shine in politics, in 2015 he was elected MP, in 2019 he easily won the party primaries to succeed Jeremy Corbyn, who was defeated by Boris Johnson.

Keir had been a close associate of Corbyn but now he reveals: "I knew he was going to lose". On taking office, he initially said he would unite those nostalgic for Blairism and the Iron Corbyns, but Labour's worst defeat in almost a century saw him break away from his predecessor's radicalism, unhesitatingly taking a path that it's like Blair's Third Way: he certainly doesn't have Tony's charisma, but he has the same determination. It purges the party of the anti-American, anti-capitalist and anti-Semitic sentiments that have grown in Corbyn's shadow. British Muslims and young socialists accuse him of not criticizing Israel enough in the Gaza war, but in fact he is in the same positions as the US and the EU: condemns Hamas massacres, supports a Palestinian state, says it is ready to accept the verdicts of the International Court of The Hague, which accuses Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu of crimes against humanity.

Kiev backs war in Ukraine, no ifs...ors... On Brexit, which he opposed more strongly than Eurosceptic Corbyn, he predicts that the UK is unlikely to return to the European Union in his lifetime him, but promises to improve relations with Brussels. inherits a disastrous economic situation from outgoing Prime Minister Sunak, but is committed to restoring "hope" to the people.

"Change", to change, was the simple and concise slogan of his election campaign, adopted even by The Sun, Rupert Murdoch's right-wing tabloid, in an editorial giving his endorsement, as surprisingly Blair in 1997. The Financial Times agrees: "The UK needs a change". And the turning point has come.

With a Jewish father who emigrated from Poland and an English mother who converted to Judaism, his wife Victoria still remembers what she thought when she first met Starmer: "Who the hell does this guy think he is?". After that, a great love blossomed. His influence on Keir must not be small, if he persuaded him to choose the Jewish faith even for his children; and if he says he wants to spend Friday evening with his family even as head of government, to celebrate together the beginning of the Sabbath (a desire instrumentalized by the conservatives to define him as a slacker, when in reality he is a worker ).

As tradition dictates, at sunset every Friday there will be candles lit in the windows of their new residence on Doëning Street.

But the light that Starmer spread with his landslide victory shines across the English Channel as a possible role model: proof that the left can win, even in these times when the populist wind blows from the right. Sir Keir, the British helmsman, succeeded by getting votes even in the opponent's territory, at least in the center of the electorate, and by building a wide field, very wide indeed.


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