Keir Starmer: 58th Prime Minister of UK

On July 5th, 2024, Keir Starmer became the 58th Prime Minister of UK, 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. Starmer led the Labour Party to a landslide victory in the UK parliamentary election by winning 412 of 650 seats.

Key Points

Keir Starmer is the first university graduate from his family after studying law at Leeds University, following it up with a post-graduate degree from Oxford.
In 1987, Starmer joined the Middle Temple, one of the four court associations called Inns of Court, which are eligible to call their members to the English bar as barristers.
In 2002, he was appointed to Queen’s Counsel.
He served as human rights adviser to the Northern Ireland Policing Board between 2003 and 2008.
In 2015, he made his debut into politics when he was elected as the Labour Party candidate for Holborn and St. Pancras, a seat he has held in the three elections since.
In 2020, he became a party head.