{"id":132201,"date":"2024-07-05T09:15:50","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T06:15:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/who-is-keir-starmer-britains-new-prime-minister-is-complex-unknowable-aggrieved\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T09:15:50","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T06:15:50","slug":"who-is-keir-starmer-britains-new-prime-minister-is-complex-unknowable-aggrieved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/who-is-keir-starmer-britains-new-prime-minister-is-complex-unknowable-aggrieved\/","title":{"rendered":"Who is Keir Starmer? Britain\u2019s new prime minister is complex, unknowable, aggrieved"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button \" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/fi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132201\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\nKeir Starmer, a human rights lawyer from a small town in southern England, is about to be prime minister of the United Kingdom. His victory on July 4 was overwhelming. Yet Britain barely knows who he is. Starmer has been a politician for only nine years, and since being crowned U.K. Labour leader in 2020 has steered his party from its worst election defeat in almost a century to become the dominant force in British politics.<\/p>\n<p>More than that, his success \u2014 just as Western allies flirt with populism \u2014 places him instantly as one of the most prominent center-ground leaders in the world. That may be a lonely place, come the year\u2019s end. Few thought such a transformation possible. His enemies call it luck: they say he has benefitted from Tory calamity (which he has), and is victor by default. The truth is more curious, and impressive.<\/p>\n<p>At 61, Starmer has a long backstory. His father was a silent, authoritarian toolmaker. (Starmer reminds us of his father\u2019s trade so often that the political class, and sometimes the voters, mock him for it.) His mother was a nurse, with the debilitating health condition Still\u2019s disease. They named him after Keir Hardie, the first Labour Party leader. He excelled at school. He played the flute and football \u2014 one delicate, one savage \u2014 and became a lawyer. His siblings called him \u201cSuperboy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was socialist, segueing to soft left, and when the hard left Labour Leader Jeremy Corbyn fell in 2019, Starmer stood for the party leadership on an unashamedly leftist platform, making 10 pledges to appeal to his predecessor\u2019s acolytes. Once in power, he junked them all, except the last \u2014 to provide effective opposition. Corbynites and antisemites were purged from the party.<\/p>\n<p>Starmer says now that Covid-19, Ukraine, and the state of the public finances forbid him from proceeding with his original platform. The truth is he wanted to win a general election, and there is no socialist path to that in a constitutional monarchy. \u201cI\u2019ve been in opposition now for nine long years,\u201d Starmer told me in January. \u201cThat isn\u2019t changing lives. We had to get the Labour Party and literally turn it inside out. We lost our way up into 2019 as a party, we lost our way, we lost our bearings.\u201d Did he feel that at the time? \u201cYeah,\u201d he said, and quickly moved on. Starmer exiled Corbyn from the party, though if he secretly hated him \u2014 Starmer has a half-Jewish wife, and antisemitism flourished in Labour under his predecessor \u2014 he has never said so.<\/p>\n<p>Source:<a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/uk-election-results-keir-starmer-profile-britain-incoming-prime-minister-complex-unknowable-aggrieved\/\"> Politico<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/vaufien\/who-is-keir-starmer-britains-new-prime-minister-is-complex-unknowable-aggrieved\/\">Who is Keir Starmer? 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