UK Elections Info

Data Last Updated: 7 August 2025
Application Last Amended: 20 July 2024
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Keir Starmer

Born: 2 September 1962

Knighted - 31 December 2013

Member of Privy Council - 19 July 2017

husband of Victoria Cadwalader

Reigate Grammar School

Leeds University (- 1985)

St Edmund Hall, Oxford (- 1986)

Lawyer

Leader of HM Opposition	4 April 2020	5 July 2024	(Reshuffled)
Prime Minister and First Lord of the Treasury	5 July 2024

7 May 2015	Holborn & St Pancras	Labour Party	29,062	52.92
8 June 2017	Holborn & St Pancras	Labour Party	41,343	70.08
12 December 2019	Holborn & St Pancras	Labour Party	36,641	64.52
4 April 2020 Rt Hon Sir Keir Starmer is elected as Leader of the Labour Party, polling 275,780 to Rebecca Long-Bailey's 135,218 and Lisa Nandy's 79.597.
4 July 2024	Holborn & St Pancras	Labour Party	18,884	48.92