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Keir Starmer

(1962) Barrister

105 quotes in 377 categories

Keir Starmer is a barrister.

Quick Facts About Keir Starmer

Born: September 2, 1962
Profession: Barrister

About Keir Starmer

[Wikidata] Outgoing Prime Minister of the United Kingdom... | [Wikipedia] Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and former lawyer who has served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024. He served as Leader of the Labour Party from April 2020 to July 2026. Prior to his premiership, Starmer served as Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024. He has be

Quotes by Keir Starmer · Page 4

For some people, work is the only safe haven from abuse. So all employers in businesses big and small, whether in the…

Abuse

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Labour's approach is not about what is politically right, it is about what is right for the country.

About

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Strip away the factual misinformation repeatedly peddled about the Human Rights Act and almost everyone acknowledges that it works well in practice.…

Common law

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I always say, it's better to be asked why you're leaving, rather than when you're leaving.

Always

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I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

Absolutely

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The E.U. has data systems that enable police and border guards to work together in real time to intercept wanted persons; and…

Data

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The framework for everything I've done has been human rights. That is about protecting the vulnerable and giving people access to courts…

Done

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I am not a pacifist and I would back a lawful, coherent and compelling case for the use of military force by…

Back

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Part of the reason I moved from law to politics was an increasingly profound belief that how we rebuild after the 2008…

Belief

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I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed…

Dignity

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I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

Crime

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From my experience both as DPP and previously as a human rights lawyer, I know that human rights and effective protection from…

Experience

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Access to our civil courts has been severely restricted by the combination of: the removal of legal aid from some cases based…

Failure

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The Max Clifford case shows that when the police and prosecutors quietly hold their nerve they can succeed, whatever the public profile…

Case

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My parents didn't have the opportunities they would have liked, but they didn't complain about that because they thought they were part…

Complain

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For better or worse, when I was director of public prosecutions I had to deal with every challenge that came up, and…

Better

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Ensuring we have the best possible Brexit deal will take time, effort and huge diplomatic skill.

Best

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I'm well aware of different views across my own party and across Parliament on pretty well all Brexit issues.

Aware

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From a victim's point of view, our justice system is hardly fit for purpose. No doubt individual failings by police and prosecutors…

Doubt

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Britain needs a good Brexit deal to safeguard jobs, security and trade and to build a new partnership with the E.U. Achieving…

Brexit

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If you go into a police station and report a burglary the first question is not: 'Are you telling the truth?' If…

Past

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I campaigned to stay in the E.U. I voted to stay in the E.U. and I was very disappointed by the outcome.…

Another

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There is very, very little chance of bespoke transitional arrangements being negotiated at the same time as the rest of Article 50.

Being

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To draft a bill of rights that simply replicates the European convention on human rights gives the game away; namely that the…

Act

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As we leave the E.U., freedom of movement falls away, because it's an E.U. rule... What we then have to say is,…

Freedom

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Brexit (17) Human rights (10)