Keir Starmer takes the top job from Rishi Sunak, Britain's fifth consecutive Conservative prime minister. The 61-year-old human rights lawyer-turned-politician has had a rapid ascent after ...

Keir Starmer, 61, is a social liberal, fiscal moderate and leader of the United Kingdom’s Labour Party, which official results Friday showed had won a parliamentary election by a landslide.

Who is Keir Starmer? On paper, the 61-year-old Starmer looks like a classic establishment figure. Once a leading human rights ...

There is a story that Sir Keir Starmer’s friends like to tell about his response to Labour’s humiliating Hartlepool by-election defeat in 2021. Having lost the safe seat to the Conservatives ...

LONDON — Barring an almighty upset, Keir Starmer will become British prime minister Friday, his Labour Party ousting the ruling Conservatives after 14 years. But for a man on the verge of ruling ...

Born in 1963, Starmer is the son of a toolmaker and a nurse who named him after Keir Hardie, the Labour Party’s first leader. One of four children, he was raised in a cash-strapped household in ...