Share on email Keir Starmer became the U.K.'s new prime minister on Friday, one day after Britain's center-left Labour Party sailed to aStarmer, 61, grew up in Oxted, a town south of London. His father worked as a toolmaker in a factory while his mother was a nurse for Britain's National Health Service , according to his
While campaigning, Starmer frequently emphasized his working-class roots, which distinguished him from some other former Labour party leaders who came from more affluent backgrounds, perStarmer began his career as a human rights lawyer, taking up high-profile cases against corporations such as Shell and McDonalds.
But since then, Labour party members have said they were making efforts to strengthen their relationships with both Democrats and Republicans in the U.S.,