Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer

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Visit our privacy Policy for more information about our services, how New Statesman Media Group may use, process and share your personal data, including information on your rights in respect of your personal data and how you can unsubscribe from future marketing communications. 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.

That hasn’t happened, not least because of the time pressure on him as leader of the opposition, and the advance is now being repaid to HarperCollins. I knew most of this already, because I played a peripheral part in some of what is described in this book. In these pages we see how Labour Together selected Keir Starmer to be its frontman, helping him win Labour's leadership with the most mendacious campaign in recent political history. Dispiriting in many ways but a refreshing read nevertheless in providing serious analysis of the man who still wants to be the next Prime Minister. It describes his political direction in the first year as leader, anticipates his approach to any general election and very briefly discusses the options for the political left.Maguire is a political columnist for the Times and senior political correspondent for Times Radio, and Pogrund is Whitehall Editor at the Sunday Times, where he covers politics and investigations. Colleagues noticed however that he found it difficult to make decisions without them being run by several people and preferably focus groups first – this is an aspect of his personality that hasn’t changed and why he never comments quickly on a changing political scene – not useful in the world of 24 hour news where the narrative moves so quickly and with even the most obvious cases of right and wrong he is incapable of offering commentary. Ashcroft informed Starmer of his project, but received no reply; it emerged over time that not only did the Labour leader not wish to cooperate, he had asked his associates not to either. The Party under Starmer has since embraced the ugliest forms of racism and Islamophobia, and shared information hacked from journalists critical of its allies.

We know there are thousands of National readers who want to debate, argue and go back and forth in the comments section of our stories. It certainly shows why he saw no hesitation in stating that the response to the murder of Sarah Everard at the hands of a serving Met Police officer should be “more police on the streets”. Even Boris Johnson, mayor of London at the time, stated that “to extradite a man diagnosed with Asperger Syndrome to America for trial would be extraordinarily cruel and inhumane”.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. The Politician sees Starmer elected to parliament, and immediately thrust into the life of the Labour MP and indeed into the febrile atmosphere of the then Labour parties relationships and factions: those who supported the then leader Jeremy Corbyn and those who didn't (in simple terms). MacDonald was working on evidence available at the time but by the time Starmer was in post further evidence had become available including CCTV footage which completely contradicted the police narrative. 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. A few months later I was suspended for over a year and not allowed to stand as a candidate in the local elections in Bristol for allowing a meeting to take place at which a motion was allowed to be heard in support of Jeremy Corbyn.

Many other people were extradited under the flimsiest of excuses the were rooted in Starmer’s own Americophilia. Using a cache of hitherto unseen documents and exclusive insider accounts, this sensational new book tells the story of how a shadowy group, Labour Together, came to the cusp of delivering Sir Keir Starmer to power in Britain. It's a quick read, and I would definitely recommend it to anyone interested in the Labour Party or British politics.I was disappointed there was no mention of the Muslim child grooming gangs and the controversy that has followed Starmer in the press about decisions he is supposed to have made to prosecute or not since leaving the DPP; even as the CPS with Nazir Afzal acting as chief crown prosecutor for north-west England has prosecuted tens of men for their involvement. He advised that police should not even submit a case to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) unless it met his evidential tests.

This chapter provided good insight into how Starmer operates and in which groups he worked and with whom; notably as Corbyn's Shadow Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, and thus played a central role in Labour's posture and importantly, within this book, its public statements and his going against the party line and explicit briefings from Corbyn and LOTO's office. The Labour leader said a year ago he was writing a book which his spokesman claimed would be about his “plans for a renewed Britain” and why he believes in the “vital importance of putting integrity back into public life.

An aide who worked closely with Starmer between 2016 and 2019 reflected that this was ‘typical of Keir. 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. Most purchases from business sellers are protected by the Consumer Contract Regulations 2013 which give you the right to cancel the purchase within 14 days after the day you receive the item. Unfortunately, though, these important debates are being spoiled by a vocal minority of trolls who aren’t really interested in the issues, try to derail the conversations, register under fake names, and post vile abuse. Hailed as a human-rights champion and political outsider, what sort of politician is Keir Starmer really, and what mark is he making on the new politics of Labour?