Starmer was born in Southwark, London, on 2 September 1962. [3] [4] He grew up in the small town of Oxted in Surrey. [5] [6] [7] He was the second of the four children of Josephine ( néeBaker), a nurse, and Rodney Starmer, who owned a business as a toolmaker. [7] [8] [9] His mother had Still's disease. [10] [11] His parents were Labour Party supporters, and named him after the party's first parliamentary leader, Keir Hardie. [12] [13] He passed the 11-plus examination and gained entry to Reigate Grammar School, then a voluntary aided selective grammar school. [13] The school was converted into an independent fee-paying school in 1976, while he was a student. Although he was exempt from paying fees until the age of 16, his sixth-form study fees were paid by a bursary he received from the private school's charity. [14] [15] [16] Among his classmates were the musician Norman Cook, alongside whom Starmer took violin lessons; Andrew Cooper, who went on to become a Conservative peer; and future conservative journalist Andrew Sullivan. According to Starmer, he and Sullivan "fought over everything ... Politics, religion. You name it." [7] Sir Keir condemned for defending Israeli government's 'right' to cut off water and food to people in Gaza". Morning Star. 11 October 2023. Keir Starmer enters Labour leadership contest". BBC News. 4 January 2020. Archived from the original on 4 January 2020 . Retrieved 4 January 2020. Keir Starmer meets Ukraine's President Zelensky in Kyiv". BBC News. 16 February 2023 . Retrieved 13 September 2023.

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Keir Starmer to stand for Labour in Holborn and St Pancras". The Guardian. 13 December 2014. Archived from the original on 2 April 2019 . Retrieved 12 December 2016.Elected to the House of Commons at the 2015 general election, Starmer was appointed Shadow Minister for Immigration by new party leader Jeremy Corbyn in September 2015. He resigned in 2016 as part of the wider June 2016 British shadow cabinet resignations in protest at Corbyn's leadership, but accepted a new post under Corbyn later that year as Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union following the EU membership referendum. Starmer advocated a second referendum on Brexit, in which he stated he would vote to "remain"; this policy was ultimately included in the 2019 Labour election platform. Our farmers in Essex and across the country have worked incredibly hard during the pandemic to keep providing the food our country needs and events like these remind us all of how important farmers are to our everyday lives,” she said. He renewed his pleas for a windfall tax on energy companies, and a U-turn on government energy support measures, which Boris Johnson ruled out. Riley-Smith, Ben (13 August 2023). "Polluting water companies will be automatically fined under Labour plans". The Daily Telegraph. ISSN 0307-1235 . Retrieved 13 September 2023.

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Starmer is a former member of the Trilateral Commission, a nongovernmental international organisation aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. [198]

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