Sir Keir Starmer is a politician, who grew up in Surrey and worked as a barrister before becoming an MP. He specialised in human rights law and rose through the ranks to become Director of Public Prosecutions before being awarded a knighthood 2014.

His progress into the establishment was completed when he was elected to parliament the following year and in 2020 he became leader of the Labour Party. 

Now if the polls are to believed Keir Starmer may be prime minister after the next general election. 

But his childhood was far from easy. Keir talks candidly to Rachel and Alice about growing up in a small pebble dashed house with six humans and four dogs, where money was tight and the phone was cut off. He shares bittersweet memories of early years overshadowed by his mother’s degenerative, disabling illness and frequent critical stays in hospital high dependency units. 

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