Keir Starmer: Key revelations from the new biography of the Labour leader
A biography has shed new light on Keir Starmer’s rise from working-class roots in Surrey to knocking on the door of No 10 as Labour leader.
The Tom Baldwin biography offers never-before-seen details into the lawyer turned politician’s life, including the “very tough life” of his beloved brother Nick, his frustration with Jeremy Corbyn, a brief dalliance with Trotskyism, and his lifelong obsession with Arsenal football club.
Here The Independent recaps the key revelations from Keir Starmer: The Biography
His mother had a severe lifelong illness
Starmer’s mother was struggled with illness most of her life, being diagnosed with Still’s disease at only ten-years-old. This is a rare inflammatory arthritis which caused her chronic difficulty. She was told she would be in a wheelchair by her twenties, and that it would be impossible to ever have children.
An experimental cortisone treatment helped her to beat the odds, and she went on to have four children. Starmer
