Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer

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He assured the public that he had commissioned a ‘thorough’ examination of phone hacking evidence, when he had requested only a partial and inadequate review. Keir Starmer stands on the cusp of becoming prime minister despite being a puzzle to many in Westminster and beyond who really don’t understand how he has got there, let alone who he is or what he wants to do if he makes it through the front door of 10 Downing Street. Overall, there are aspects where the choice of words is used to press a point of negativity or behaviour [by Starmer] that does not fit with the author's view of a hard left Labour party. His response,” Ashcroft concludes, “has done a fine job in convincing me that he thinks it would be perfectly acceptable for him to move into 10 Downing Street without a book of this kind asking some probing questions about him. There is one further interruption to the narrative, which has quite an unabashed agenda: to show that Starmer is not who he’s pretending to be.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. It is because in truth the current Labour under Starmer and Conservative under Sunak parties we have are actually so very close in actions, behaviours and their policies and principles. As an academic who worked closely with Sunak in Government, I feel pretty well placed to say that the book just about perfectly got the measure of the man, as a personality, policy-maker and politician. Change country: -Select- Albania Algeria American Samoa Andorra Angola Anguilla Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Armenia Aruba Australia Austria Azerbaijan Republic Bahamas Bahrain Bangladesh Barbados Belgium Belize Benin Bermuda Bhutan Bolivia Bosnia and Herzegovina Botswana Brazil British Virgin Islands Brunei Darussalam Bulgaria Burkina Faso Burundi Cambodia Cameroon Canada Cape Verde Islands Cayman Islands Central African Republic Chad Chile China Colombia Comoros Cook Islands Costa Rica Cyprus Czech Republic Côte d'Ivoire (Ivory Coast) Democratic Republic of the Congo Denmark Djibouti Dominica Dominican Republic Ecuador Egypt El Salvador Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Estonia Ethiopia Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) Fiji Finland France French Guiana French Polynesia Gabon Republic Gambia Georgia Germany Ghana Gibraltar Greece Greenland Grenada Guadeloupe Guam Guatemala Guernsey Guinea Guinea-Bissau Guyana Haiti Honduras Hong Kong Hungary Iceland India Indonesia Iraq Ireland Israel Italy Jamaica Japan Jersey Jordan Kazakhstan Kenya Kiribati Kuwait Kyrgyzstan Laos Latvia Lebanon Lesotho Liberia Liechtenstein Lithuania Luxembourg Macau Macedonia Madagascar Malawi Malaysia Maldives Mali Malta Marshall Islands Martinique Mauritania Mauritius Mayotte Mexico Micronesia Moldova Monaco Mongolia Montenegro Montserrat Morocco Mozambique Namibia Nepal Netherlands Netherlands Antilles New Caledonia New Zealand Nicaragua Niger Nigeria Niue Norway Oman Pakistan Palau Panama Papua New Guinea Paraguay Peru Philippines Poland Portugal Puerto Rico Qatar Republic of Croatia Republic of the Congo Reunion Romania Rwanda Saint Helena Saint Kitts-Nevis Saint Lucia Saint Pierre and Miquelon Saint Vincent and the Grenadines San Marino Saudi Arabia Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Singapore Slovakia Slovenia Solomon Islands South Africa South Korea Spain Sri Lanka Suriname Swaziland Sweden Switzerland Taiwan Tajikistan Tanzania Thailand Togo Tonga Trinidad and Tobago Tunisia Turkey Turkmenistan Turks and Caicos Islands Tuvalu Uganda United Arab Emirates United Kingdom United States Uruguay Uzbekistan Vanuatu Vatican City State Venezuela Vietnam Virgin Islands (U. The Party under Starmer has since embraced the ugliest forms of racism and Islamophobia, and shared information hacked from journalists critical of its allies.It was so unusual for Corbyn, one of the few politicians to answer clearly and honestly mosty questions fired by interviewers. The conversation will go back to what it should be about – people who care passionately about the issues, but disagree constructively on what we should do about them. In his book Keir Starmer will go back to his early life to trace the origins of his politics and the influences that have shaped him as a leader,” Pike said. His early life and career are covered, fair game is made of his early views on immigration, racism, the monarchy and his time as DPP.

How many people joined a Labour club at university, went to the first meeting, couldn’t work out what everyone was fighting about and never went back? If Corbyn had won the election, Starmer's Brexit plan would go into action - either trying to get an elusive great deal with the EU and back in a customs union which would be seen as capitulation by Brexiteers, or a second vote with remain high on the ballot paper. This may seem odd at first glance, but when we have a high-tax, big state and big state spending, high immigration, Net Zero, Conservative Government there is little between Starmer's Labour party and Sunak's Tories. Theresa May had been replaced by Boris Johnson after having failed to get any type of Brexit deal through Parliament.

The ability to comment on our stories is a privilege, not a right, however, and that privilege may be withdrawn if it is abused or misused. We do know that Starmer was elected leader of the Labour Party on the promise of retaining Corbyn’s manifesto.

The first is the author’s own narcissism, which leaves him blankly unable to understand a worldview other than his own, mystified by behaviour and life choices that will strike your average pinko as completely normal. Why would Starmer campaign so hard against the death penalty in Belize and Uganda, when his clients had been convicted of “shocking crimes”?The latter role is the basis of much of Starmers reputation, it is unfair, as is suggested in a quote, to blame the DPP for the decisions of individual prosecutors but he can be held responsible for overall policy such as always believe the victim which had adverse consequences. In an unusual departure from the norms of the genre, Michael Ashcroft begins his unauthorised biography of Keir Starmer, Red Knight, with a lengthy peroration about himself. Mid-way through the book Ashcroft reveals that Starmer is a member of the secretive anti-democratic Trilaterals. The claimants threatened to sue the Party for breach of Data Protection leaked by a whistleblower of Whatsap messaging between the cabal. The Labour leader, his advisers thought, needed to add some intellectual depth to his offer to the electorate.

British politics would be a lot more interesting if we had break-away parties on both sides of the current two major parties (not forgetting the Liberal-Democrats and Scottish National parties).

Oliver Eagleton's account of Starmer removing the Labour whip from Jeremy Corbyn over anti semitism in the party is such a relief to read, yet so unbelivable.