Keir Starmer
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Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and barrister who has served as Leader of the Opposition and Leader of the Labour Party since 2020. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015. He was previously Director of Public Prosecutions from 2008 to 2013.
Official portrait, 2017
Starmer as Director of Public Prosecutions speaking at Chatham House in 2013
Starmer c. 2012
Starmer pictured with his shadow cabinet colleagues at the launch of Labour's general election campaign, 31 October 2019
Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)
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The Leader of His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition, more commonly referred to as the Leader of the Opposition, is the person who leads the Official Opposition in the United Kingdom. The position is seen as the shadow head of government of the United Kingdom and thus the shadow prime minister of the United Kingdom.
Leader of the Opposition (United Kingdom)
Charles James Fox, Leader of the Opposition 1783–1806
"the opposition" Bonar Law as caricatured in Vanity Fair, April 1912