Sir Keir Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer
Sir Keir Starmer is Member of the British Parliament, Leader of the Labour Party and Leader of the Opposition in the British Parliament in London. He was elected as Labour MP for Holborn & St Pancras in May 2015. In October 2016, he was appointed to the Shadow Cabinet, taking up the role as Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the EU. Prior to becoming an MP Keir Starmer was a human rights lawyer, co-founding Doughty Street Chambers in 1990 and conducting cases in the International Criminal Court and the European Court of Human Rights. Keir Starmer also worked to help eradicate the death penalty in a number of countries (mainly in the Caribbean and Africa) and continues to work closely on a voluntary basis with the Death Penalty Project, most recently (October 2016) seeking to end the death penalty in Taiwan. In 2008 Keir Starmer was appointed Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service for England and Wales, a role he held until 2013. Keir Starmer studied law at Leeds University and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, and has published several books including Three Pillars of Liberty: Political Rights and Freedoms in the UK (1996) and European Human Rights Law (1999).
