GRAZIA EXCLUSIVE
YOU MIGHT EXPECT Sir Keir Starmer to say he always wanted to be Prime Minister. He is, after all, named after the Labour Party’s founder, Keir Hardie, and now leads the party, which is in touching distance of government, according to polls. He looks the part: smart, serious, suited, knighted. But it wasn’t a lifelong goal. When did he decide he wanted the top job in politics?
‘Only very recently,’ he says, referring to 2019, when he made the decision to stand for leader. ‘Some people will say, “Oh, I knew as a child that I wanted to be an MP and PM” - not for me. I grew up working class: Dad worked in a factory, Mum was a nurse. I didn’t think that someone like me…
