He's derided as dull but Keir Starmer becomes UK prime minister with a sensational victory
For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result
LONDON (AP) — For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result.
Starmer led Britain's Labour Party to a landslide election victory, and on Friday became the country's 58th prime minister — the first leader from the center-left party to win a U.K. national election since Tony Blair, who won three in a row starting in 1997.
It's the latest reinvention for a man who went from human rights attorney to hard-nosed prosecutor and from young radical to middle-aged pragmatist.
Like Blair, who refashioned the party as “New Labour” in the 1990s, 61-year-old Starmer led Labour to a landslide victory over Rishi Sunak’s Conservative Party in Thursday’s election after dragging the party towards the political middle ground.
