Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer

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Wes is a very busy politician, but not as busy as Keir Starmer,” comes the diplomatic reply from his office. In The Starmer Project, Oliver Eagleton provides a careful reading of Starmer's record at the Crown Prosecution Service and as a member of Jeremy Corbyn's Shadow Cabinet, tracing the political alliances he forged and the roots of his bid for the Party leadership.A swift but necessary overview of how Keir Starmer's prior reputation as a pioneering human rights lawyer isn't quite accurate, and how his opportunism has now found him as Leader of the Opposition in name only.

He worked at the human rights charity Liberty which subsequently grew to larger prominence under Shami Chakrabarti.

In response to a global pandemic and the most criminal government in the history of the UK was to support them in many of their policies and abstain in areas where no Labour MP should ever abstain. It took Theresa May of all people as home secretary to personally refuse the extradition which apparently sent Starmer into a “rage” who booked the next flight to Washington to grovel at the seat of Holder.

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 leads the author to ask whether Socialists in the Labour Party including MPs should quit and start up their own, new party to try to build a movement based on true and traditional Labour values.

Second, a lot is made of Starmer's political publications as a young metropolitan barrister based in London.

The 2021 local elections and Hartlepool by-election did not resurrect the Red Wall and only in the Tory-blue South did his party make cosmetic gains. In a historical case brought forward with new evidence against the killers of Blair Peach in 1979 who were police officers, Starmer again concluded the medical reports were insufficient despite clear evidence of the teacher’s head being smashed open by multiple truncheon strikes. This for me was the most interesting chapter as there are some good insights and inputs from people who worked in Millbank, LOTO (prior to Corbyn's departure) and other MPs and Labour party officials. When Sinn Fein requested the NIPB ban the use of tasers and plastic bullets against children Starmer threw the request in the bin earning praise from Ian Paisley Jr.The synopsis says: "The book will offer an inside account of Starmer’s leadership as he overcame opponents internal and external, dragging the party from the depths of its post-Corbyn funk to within touching distance of Downing Street. Sir Keir said last year that he had begun penning a book about his life and political vision during the Covid lockdowns. An aide who worked closely with Starmer between 2016 and 2019 reflected that this was ‘typical of Keir. Baldwin provides a vivid and compelling account of how this untypical politician then rose to be leader of his party in succession to Jeremy Corbyn, then transformed it with a ruthless rapidity that has enraged opponents from the left just as much as it has bewildered those on the right.