For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result.
FILE - Leader of the British Labour Party Keir Starmer gestures as he arrives to make his keynote speech at the annual party conference in Brighton, England, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. and on Friday will become prime minister — the first leader from the center-left party to win a U.K. national election since Tony Blair , who won three in a row starting in 1997.
During the campaign he was stubbornly resistant to revealing flashes of personality, telling a Guardian interviewer that he couldn’t remember any of his dreams, did not have a favorite novel and had no childhood fears. “There were hard times,” he said in a speech launching his election campaign. “I know what out-of-control inflation feels like, how the rising cost of living can make you scared of the postman coming down the path: 'Will he bring another bill we can’t afford?'"
The cases often put him at odds with both Conservative and Labour governments, so his switch to become head of the Crown Prosecution Service in 2008 surprised some colleagues. But during five years in the job he gained a reputation as a tough and hard-working director of public prosecutions. He said he wanted to stay and fight to change Labour, arguing that “leaders are temporary, but political parties are permanent.”
“While I don’t think anyone is particularly excited about Keir Starmer, I think he has done a good job of situating himself as the kind of competent grown up in the room who is going to be able to bring government back to where it belongs,” said Lise Butler, senior lecturer in modern history at City University of London.
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