Keir Starmer: the path to power – in pictures
From childhood to university, and from director of public prosecutions to prime minister, we follow the life of Starmer
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Keir Starmer as an infant
Photograph: Keir Starmer
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Starmer as a young boy
Photograph: Keir Starmer
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Starmer in his first year at Reigate grammar school in 1974, where he got a mixed bag of reports from teachers
Photograph: Keir Starmer
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Starmer as a young man
Photograph: Keir Starmer
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Starmer with his grandmother at Christmas
Photograph: Keir Starmer
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Starmer (front right) wearing eyeliner and ‘projecting a romantic vision of some kind’ with his student flatmates (from left: Alison Jenkins, John Murray and Debbie Bacon) in Leeds in 1982. The skull, apparently, was real
Photograph: Keir Starmer
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Starmer celebrating his first-class law degree from the University of Leeds with his parents, Rod and Jo, in 1985
Photograph: Keir Starmer
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Starmer, now a barrister, outside the high court
Photograph: ITV
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Starmer, now a Queen’s Counsel, speaking as the director of public prosecutions in 2009
Photograph: Dominic Lipinski/PA
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Starmer posing for a Society journal photoshoot in 2011
Photograph: Linda Nylind/The Guardian
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Starmer arrives at the high court in 2012 to give evidence at the Leveson inquiry as director of public prosecutions
Photograph: Chris Helgren/Reuters
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Starmer after being knighted in 2014
Photograph: James Drew Turner/The Guardian
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Starmer canvassing in Holborn and St Pancras in the run-up to the 2015 general election, in which he won his first seat in parliament
Photograph: Rex/Shutterstock
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Starmer campaigning with the Labour former minister Frank Dobson in 2015
Photograph: Frantzesco Kangaris/The Guardian
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Starmer, as shadow Brexit secretary, at the Labour conference in 2016
Photograph: Hannah McKay/Reuters
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Starmer campaigning in Pembrey, Carmarthenshire, during the 2017 general election campaign
Photograph: Geoff Caddick/AFP/Getty Images
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As shadow Brexit secretary, Starmer speaks outside the European Commission headquarters in Brussels in 2018
Photograph: François Lenoir/Reuters
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Starmer at his temporary office in Camden, London, in 2020
Photograph: Antonio Olmos/The Observer
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Starmer during a visit to Stevenage during the launch of his campaign to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as party leader in 2020
Photograph: Aaron Chown/PA
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Keir Starmer and his wife, Victoria, at the 2021 Labour conference in Brighton
Photograph: Henry Nicholls/Reuters
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Starmer and Angela Rayner, the Labour deputy leader, at the party’s 2022 conference in Liverpool
Photograph: Christopher Thomond/The Guardian
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Starmer visits Irpin, near the capital of Ukraine, in 2023
Photograph: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images
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The Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, with Starmer and the shadow energy secretary, Ed Miliband, in Greenock during the 2024 general election campaign
Photograph: Stefan Rousseau/PA
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Keir and Victoria Starmer arrive to cast their votes on Thursday
Photograph: Leon Neal/Getty Images
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Starmer with Victoria after he was declared winner of his Holborn and St Pancras constituency on Friday
Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian
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Starmer speaks at the Labour victory party at the Tate Modern, London
Photograph: Sean Smith/The Guardian
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Starmer arrives at No 10 Downing Street
Photograph: David Levene/The Guardian
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Starmer makes his first speech as prime minister
Photograph: Kin Cheung/AP
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