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As the leader of the majority party in the House of Commons, Starmer was appointed prime minister, First Lord of the Treasury and Minister for the Civil Service by King Charles III on 5 July 2024, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown in 2010 and the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair in 2005.
As the leader of the majority party in the House of Commons, Starmer was appointed as prime minister by King Charles III on 5 July 2024, becoming the first Labour prime minister since Gordon Brown, the first one to win a general election since Tony Blair, and the first Labour government formed during the reign of Charles III. [20]
The Starmer ministry began on 5 July 2024 when Keir Starmer was invited by ... Parliamentary Private Secretary to the Leader of the House of Commons and Lord ...
Lucy Powell will be Leader of the House of Commons, while Baroness Smith of Basildon will be Leader of the House of Lords. ... Sir Keir Starmer became Prime Minister after an audience with the ...
The center-left party won 412 of the 650 seats in the House of Commons. Starmer is more accustomed to asking the questions after spending four years as leader of the opposition to a Conservative ...
Keir Starmer is a British politician and barrister who has been Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since 2024 and Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015, and was previously Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024.
By the end of 2021, membership had fallen to 432,213, a drop of more than 21% since Starmer became leader, [170] but still more than double the membership of the Conservative Party. [171] Momentum, a left-wing campaign group, said Starmer's "factional" leadership was to blame as it alienated trade unions. [171]
Both lawyers by training, they married in 2007 – the year before Starmer became Director of Public Prosecutions. Their relationship grew out of an unlikely first meeting at work, as the Labour ...