Keir Starmer

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Legal career

Starmer appeared at the Middle Temple in 1987, becoming a bencher in 2009. He served as a legal advisor for Liberty until 1990. From 1990 to 2000, he served in Doughty Street Chambers, primarily on human rights issues. He has been summoned to the prison in a number of Caribbean countries, where he has advocated for prisoners sentenced to death penalty. In the McLibel case, which went to court in 1997, he worked for Helen Steel and David Morris. "There's an incredibly strong legal team representing McDonald's at great expense," he said in an interview, and Dave and Helen have had to act for themselves with me as a sort of free back up whenever possible." He was interviewed for McLibel, Franny Armstrong and Ken Loach's documentary film about the case.

On April 9, 2002, the actress who was 39 years old, was appointed Queen's Counsel. He was joint chairman of Doughty Street Chambers in the same year. Starmer served as a human rights advisor to the Northern Ireland Policing Board and the Association of Chief Police Officers, as well as a member of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office's death penalty advisory committee from 2002 to 2008. "Some of the things I believed that needed to change in police services we achieved faster than we did in strategic litigation," he cited later. I found it easier to figure out how you can change by being inside and getting the confidence of others." During this period, he marched and wrote legal opinions against the Iraq War. Chambers and Partners named him "QC of the Year" in 2007.

Baroness Scotland of Asthal, Attorney General for England and Wales, appointed Starmer as the new head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and Director of Public Prosecutions in July 2008. On November 1, 2008, he took over Ken Macdonald. Macdonald, himself a former defense prosecutor, has applauded his appointment. Starmer was believed to be bringing a human rights perspective into the legal system.

Starmer upheld his decision not to sue the police officers who had killed Jean Charles de Menezes in a UK High Court appeal brought by the family within the first few months of his tenure. The family decided against pursuing charges, but no one has been charged with the de Menezes' deaths. Starmer defended the Human Rights Act 1998 in a "clear and fundamental representation of our citizens' human rights." Starmer was praised by Liberty and the Liberal Democrats, while Conservative MP David T. C. Davies suggested that he be dismissed. He called for the CPS to modernize in the same year by being more accessible to scrutiny and less dependent on paper records. He introduced measures in 2011 that included the "first test paperless hearing."

In the aftermath of the United Kingdom's legislative expenses scandal, Starmer announced in February 2010 that the CPS had sued three Labour MPs and a Conservative peer for charges relating to mis accounting. They were all found guilty. He supported efforts to legally recognize various degrees of murder in the same year. Starmer said there were insufficient evidence to sue two members of the UK security service for their suspected involvement in torture overseas in 2010 and 2012; he advocated for further probes. Starmer's family had a complaint against police officer Simon Harwood in connection with Ian Tomlinson's death in July; this led to allegations of a police cover-up by Tomlinson's family. After a subsequent inquiry found that Tomlinson had been unlawfully killed, Starmer announced that Harwood would be charged for murder. The officer was cleared by a jury in July 2012 but then suspended from the service in September. Starmer modified the decision process in December 2010 to require his personal consent to sue women who have dropped charges of rape after a woman was found guilty of perverting the path of justice "despite judges' assertion that her husband's assertion of long-term harassment, coercion, and rape was correct." He later developed rules to avoid the same women from being unfairly convicted. In the 1988 murder of Lynette White, thirteen serving and former police officers were convicted for perverting the path of justice. The prosecution was unable to disclose evidence that may have "helped" the defendants, because they were thought to have been killed by the police officer in charge of the lawsuit. The trial came to a conclusion, which was not approved by Starmer to provide any further details, and the trial was dismissed. When the missing records were discovered, Starmer ordered an investigation into the circumstances that caused to the decision and ordered a new investigation in 2012.

During the 2011 England riots, Starmer prioritized swift trial of rioters over lengthy sentences, which he later said would have helped to bring "the situation back to order." Starmer ordered a review of linked convictions and invited protestors found guilty of aggravated trespass to appeal their sentences later this year, following revelations of undercover police infiltration of environmental campaigns, allowing them to appeal their sentences. Following a study by judge Christopher Rose that the issue was due to personal error rather than a systemic issue, Starmer refused to authorize a larger inquiry.

In February 2012, Starmer revealed that Chris Huhne, the Secretary of State for Energy and Climate Change, and his ex-wife, Vicky Pryce, would be convicted of perverting the path of justice in R vs. Huhne. Huhne was the first UK cabinet minister to resign as a result of criminal charges. "We have ample evidence that we do not shy away from prosecuting politicians," the actor had said in an earlier post. Earlier this year, he gave prosecutors' advice, advising that violent protestors be supervised or prepared for violence, in comparison to protesters who were "caught up in unlawful conduct." Journalist Nick Cohen argued that Starmer was personally responsible for the prosecution of Paul Chambers in what became known as the "witter joke lawsuit" in the summer of 2012. After a third appeal, the chambers' conviction of delivering a "menacing message" was dismissed. Starmer was not involved in the decision, according to the CPS, but it was out of Starmer's hands and it was the responsibility of a Crown Court. Starmer unveiled a scheme for the criminal justice system to properly address cases of female genital mutilation, but the offence had never been successfully prosecuted at the time. At the end of 2012, he released advice on how to sue cases of grossly offensive tweets on social media, urging for caution in legal proceedings, and exploring whether users clicked away or showed regret.

In 2013, Starmer reported that sexual harassment investigations into be handled following the Jimmy Savile sexual harassment scandal, which also included a commission to investigate historical allegations. He also published a study showing that false allegations of rape are unusual in the same year, saying that the "devastating consequences of false allegations" and the belief that they are more common than data support mean that police forces will take what he describes as a cautious tactic that might "lead to injustice for victims" of rape. He also opened an investigation into the reasons for a drop in police reports of rape and domestic violence. He modified rules for those mistakenly claiming insurance under the Fraud Act in the same year as opposed to a maximum of seven years under new regulations.

Alison Saunders took over star Michael Mayer's role in November 2013 and was subsequently dismissed by him. Starmer will lead an inquiry into expanding the legislation to offer more protection to victims in cases of rape and child abuse later this month. He told BBC News on December 28th that he was "rather enjoying some free time" and "considering a variety of options." At the time, there was rumors that he would run as a Labour Party candidate for the UK Parliament.

Early political career

Following the choice of sitting MP Frank Dobson to step down, Starmer was selected in December 2014 to represent the Labour Party's elected candidate in Holborn and St Pancras, a safe seat. With a majority of 17,048 votes in the 2015 UK general election, a star performer was elected. Following Ed Miliband's resignation, he was encouraged by a number of activists to stand in the 2015 Labour Party leadership election; he ruled against it out, citing his relative lack of political experience. Starmer aided Andy Burnham, who came in second second place, in the Labour Party's new Leader, Jeremy Corbyn, during the campaign.

Starmer was appointed by Corbyn to the Shadow Home Secretary minister of Immigration, a position from which he resigned as part of the broader British shadow cabinet resignations in June 2016 over Corbyn's leadership, as well as many other Labour MPs, who said it was "simply untenable" to suggest an effective opposition without a change of leadership.

Following Corbyn's victory in the 2016 Labour Party leadership race in September, Starmer accepted a post as Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, replacing Emily Thornberry, who had previously held the position concurrently as Shadow Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. Starmer resigned from a consulting position specializing in human rights, Mishcon de Reya, who had represented Gina Miller in court action against the UK Government in R. (Miller) vs. Exiting the European Union (Miller).

Starmer, the government's shadow Brexit secretary, questioned the government's destination for the United Kingdom outside of the EU (EU), as well as calling for Brexit plans to be made public. Prime Minister Theresa May confirmed the publication of Brexit plans on December 6, 2016 in what some consider a victory for Starmer. If Britain left the EU without a contract, he said that if the government had to pass a large number of new laws quickly, or face a "unsustainable legal vacuum." Starmer, who was speaking at the 2018 Labour Party Conference on September 25, called for a referendum on the Brexit withdrawal deal, saying that the party is "campaigning for a public vote must be a choice."

Following Brexit and the need for a "fundamental rethink of immigration laws from start to finish," Starmer called for a reform to the EU free movement laws in January 2017. After being voted to the shadow cabinet, Starmer said that migrant flows should be reduced after Britain left the EU by "making sure we have the skills in this region." In November 2016, Starmer told Politico that negotiations with the EU should begin on the understanding that there must be "some improvement" to freedom of movement laws, given that remaining in the EU single market is no longer a reality.

Starmer said in May 2017 that "free movement must go" despite the fact that EU citizens must migrate to the United Kingdom if they had a job offer. Starmer was a backer of a second referendum on Brexit. In the party's 2019 UK general election manifesto, this position was included as a Labour Party agenda.

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Awards and honours

• Appointed Queen's Counsel (QC) in 2002.
• Bar Council's Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award in 2005 for his outstanding contribution to pro bono work in challenging the death penalty in Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, and the Caribbean.
• Honorary Fellow of St Edmund Hall, Oxford.
• Appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2014 New Year Honours for "services to law and criminal justice". The knighthood entitles him to be styled as "Sir Keir Starmer"; he prefers that people do not use the title "Sir".
• Sworn into the Privy Council of the United Kingdom on 19 July 2017. This enabled him to be styled "The Right Honourable".