Who is Keir Starmer, the next British Prime Minister?
With this outcome, 14 years of increasingly turbulent Conservative-led rule came to an end.
After Sunak announced his loss, 61-year-old Starmer—who was just voted to parliament nine years ago—will become the oldest prime minister of a british province in over fifty years.
He started to move closer to the establishment in 2003, surprising friends and coworkers along the way. He started by making sure the police in Northern ireland followed human rights laws.
He was named director of public prosecutions (DPP) for england and wales five years later, during the tenure of Labour's Gordon Brown as prime minister.
In 2015, he was elected as a member of parliament, representing a constituency in left-leaning north London. queen Elizabeth II knighted him, but he doesn't often use the prefix "Sir".
His mother passed just a few weeks before he was elected due to a rare joint ailment that had prevented her from walking for a long time.
In 2020, following the party's most devastating loss in 85 years in the general election, Keir Starmer was chosen to lead the Labour party in the United Kingdom.