Campaigning on a platform of 'change', Keir Starmer is set to achieve just that by ending 14 years of Conservative Party rule in the UK.
UK Labour leader Keir Starmer says he grew up working class — a self-prescribed label that has been a pillar of his campaign . "My dad was a tool-maker so he worked in a factory and my mum was a nurse, but she was also sadly very ill so she couldn't work for very long," Starmer says in one campaign video.
 He spent five years in Northern Ireland, working on truce negotiations that culminated in the 1998 Good Friday Agreement, which ended three decades of violent conflict known as The Troubles. In 2003, he penned op-eds opposing what he said was the UK's "unlawful" involvement in the Iraq War and making legal arguments against Tony Blair’s reasoning for entering the conflict.
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