Sir Keir Starmer began his career as a barrister before rising to become the director of public prosecutions. But since his entry into parliament in 2015, he has risen quickly up the ranks to the shadow cabinet’s frontbench. This week he could become Labour’s next leader
switched from a high-profile legal career to successfully run for parliament in 2015 and quickly became a fixture within Labour’s shadow cabinet. But for a man who can appear at home within the upper reaches of the British establishment, his early life was marked by campaigning, activism and radical politics.how he took on and eventually won the infamous David versus Goliath “McLibel” case for his clients as a young barrister.
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