Keir Starmer spoke to TIME about his path to Parliament, his vision for the U.K., and how he plans to get into power.
would be Britain’s next Prime Minister. The opposition Labour Party, which he leads, has been in the shadows of British politics since losing power in 2010, but has enjoyed a sustained double-digit lead over the ruling Conservative Party since the fall.
My working-class background. My dad worked in a factory, my mum was a nurse. Nobody in my extended family had gone to university. I was the first, and therefore there was something in the back of my mind that simply said, ‘People like you aren’t MPs, Keir.’ The other thing is that passion can manifest in different ways. Some people think that passion is only manifested by shouting and screaming. For me, the passion and determination to change the country for the better runs very, very deep. And I think once people understand that, then they’ve got a much better sense of who I am.Recognizing that our economy needs to be fixed.
One of the things I’ve had to learn being the leader of the Labour Party, leader of the opposition, is just to block a lot of noise out. We went from “You can’t win” to “You can’t lose” in the blink of an eye. If we go from where we landed in 2019 into government, that’ll be a historic achievement—and we need to be humble enough to know that requires us to earn every vote.
I’m absolutely sure Britain’s best days are ahead of it, not behind it. And lament is the right word. When I was Director of Public Prosecutions, I represented the U.K. in international bodies, and everybody looks to Britain as the pragmatic, reliable partner. Whatever the problem was around the international table, usually the British were asked to contribute early. And I certainly was as the representative of the U.K.
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