Red Knight: The Unauthorised Biography of Sir Keir Starmer

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But the Tories need a lot more Partygates, rape charges, and paedophilia imprisonment of their members for Starmers lot to overtake them at election time. One Boy, Two Bills and a Fry Up isn’t due out until August, but a draft has been submitted to the publisher and it has a cover image. He asserted that the ‘independent’ Rose report had refuted accusations of a systemic problem with spycops, when in fact it was a patent whitewash. For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password.

This short and topical book provides an account of Starmer's record as a lawyer and as a Director of Public Prosecutions, his part in Labour's chaotic Brexit politics and the 2019 election defeat, his election to lead the party, his ejection of Corbyn from the party and his stifling of dissent from its members. We want our comments to be a lively and valuable part of our community - a place where readers can debate and engage with the most important local issues. The most questionable rulings by Starmer as DPP were probably those that involved British police officers. It is a tale of a politician’s single-minded pursuit of victory; of a project that took Labour from its worst defeat in nearly a century to the precipice of power. Many of us who follow politics, especially on social media, are aware of much of what this book relates.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.

Ashcroft uncovers more revelations than in his previous effort, notably regarding Starmer's childhood, early career and, chiefly, his years as a barrister. His record as CPP is frankly terrifying, completely failing to defend women, attacking women for making 'false rape cases', failing to deal with the spycops episode, failing to prosecute after the phone hacking scandal, and using his position to launch his political career. 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). Although naturally right-leaning, even I found the analysis more commonly manifested as thinly-veiled conjecture. The only option was to propose bold policies, like a progressive Leave deal, that could break through the negative press coverage.During his time there he ignored complaints by the Catholic population of Ireland that the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI) was still largely a tool of the British state engaged in oppressing communities based on religious belief. One way in which Starmer dissembles is that he attempts to take credit for things that were ultimately forced upon him and turned out to be right such as the phone hacking cases. His dead letter list of pledges from that election has caused him quite enough trouble, with cries of dishonesty from the left. One case resulted in 114 activists being arrested prior to a planned demonstration at a power station – Starmer’s prosecutors withheld evidence from the defendants which ultimately led to their exoneration.

Get In by Patrick Maguire and Gabriel Pogrund will draw on Pogrund and Maguire’s "unrivalled access throughout the Labour party" to tell the story of the changes it has undergone under Starmer. This chapter is followed by The Candidate and the period where Jeremy Corbyn resigns as Labour leader and Starmer campaigns successfully to become leader.So little remains known about Starmer that his actions are usually interpreted as overtures to others. We’ve got the most informed readers in Scotland, asking each other the big questions about the future of our country. He threw his weight behind Andy Burnham, the health secretary under Gordon Brown, who signalled his political direction by launching his leadership campaign in the headquarters of an accountancy firm famous for facilitating large-scale tax avoidance. 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 Labour Together project has subsequently transformed the Party into an authoritarian machine entirely intolerant of dissent, rowing back on an ocean of previous commitments and propagating an agenda of reheated austerity.