Keir Starmer/Premiership

 Keir Starmer/Premiership(UK/Prime Minister)

Date

5 July 2024 - Present

Participants

Keir Starmer, Angela Rayner, Rachel Reeves, Yvette Cooper, Ed Miliband, David Lammy, Pat McFadden, Shabana Mahmood, Wes Streeting, Jonathan Reynolds, Liz Kendall, John Healey, Louise Haigh, Heidi Alexander, Peter Kyle, Hilary Benn, Ian Murray, Bridget Phillipson, Lisa Nandy, Angela Smith, Lucy Powell, Jo Stevens, Steve Reed, Sir Alan Campbell, Darren Jones, Richard Hermer, Anneliese Dodds, Ellie Reeves

Keir Starmer's tenure as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom began on 5 July 2024.

Craig Murray wrote:

"Millions fewer people turned out to make Keir Starmer Prime Minister than turned out to attempt the same for Jeremy Corbyn.

"That is the most important fact of this election, and the one the mainstream media works hardest to hide.

"I don’t think any Prime Minister has ever come to power with less popular enthusiasm than Keir Starmer."

Actions

Foreign policy

On foreign policy Starmer has supported Ukraine in the Russia-Ukraine war and Israel in the 2023-2025 Israel-Hamas War.

Health

On 17 October, 2024, Starmer and Chancellor Rachel Reeves meet with Bill Gates and CEO of the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Mark Suzman at 10 Downing Street. Starmer also met Gates in 2022, reportedly to discuss "climate change"" and "global health".

A toxic substance called Bovaer started being fed to cattle under the pretext of "fighting climate change". Starmer’s government said it would mandate the feeding of Bovaer to all cows in the country by 2030

The government ended winter fuel payments for around 10 million people.

In November 2024, parliament voted through to committee stage the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill, which will legalise "assisted dying".

Economy

In November 2024, Starmer announced UK will be "working in partnership with leading businesses, like BlackRock, to capitalise on the UK's position as a world leading hub for investment".

UK Government handed responsibility for defining the country's 2050 vision to Apolitical Foundation, which is anything but apolitical.

By-election performance

Keir Starmer's poor performance in eight by-elections

On 4 April 2020, following the 2020 Labour Party leadership contest, Sir Keir Starmer was elected Leader of the Labour Party to succeed Jeremy Corbyn. On 17 April 2020, it was revealed that Starmer had received a £50,000 donation from pro-Israel lobbyist Trevor Chinn – information which was not disclosed until after polls had closed in the leadership election.

Following Labour's defeat in the 2021 Hartlepool by-election, Max Blumenthal tweeted on 7 May 2021:

Keir Starmer did not become leader to help Labour win, but to restore establishment control over the party and vanquish the heretics that dared defy its agenda. For the forces he truly represents, the project has been a smashing success.

In November 2021, he told the BBC that he hadn't spoken to Corbyn in over a year. He said Tony Blair's knighthood was well deserved. In July 2023, he was nicknamed "Sir Kid Starver" over Labour plans to keep the Tories' two-child benefit cap.

Of eight by-elections held in England under Keir Starmer's leadership of the Labour Party, two were won by Boris Johnson's Tories, three won by the Lib Dems overturning huge Tory majorities and three unconvincing wins in traditional Labour seats with record low turnout figures/vote numbers:

• 2021 Hartlepool by-election: It’s shameful Labour losing this seat, there is no excuse, Sir Keir Starmer’s poor choice of candidate, Paul Williams, was a recipe for failure. The Labour Party parachuted in an ‘Arch-Remainer’ to stand in an overwhelmingly Labour leave voting seat and lost dramatically, who would have guessed? Well actually everyone.
• 2021 Chesham and Amersham by-election: Sarah Green, 39, the Liberal Democrats’ candidate, secured 21,517 votes, giving her an 8,028 majority over the second-placed Tories. Labour lost its deposit securing just 622 votes. This was the lowest Labour by-election percentage in history.
• 2021 Batley and Spen by-election: Labour candidate Kim Leadbeater, sister of murdered MP Jo Cox, was elected with 13,296 votes. Conservative candidate Ryan Stephenson came second with 12,973 votes and former Labour and Respect MP George Galloway came third with 8,264 votes. The Labour majority was just 323 votes in this Red Wall seat, which has returned Labour MPs since 1997.
• 2021 Old Bexley and Sidcup by-election: On a 33.5% turnout, the lowest ever in the constituency, the Conservative Party candidate Louie French was elected with 11,189 votes (51.5%) – a majority of 4,478 over Labour's Daniel Francis, who came second with 6,711 votes (30.9%).
• 2021 North Shropshire by-election: Won by Liberal Democrats Helen Morgan with 17,957 votes (47.2%), Conservative Party Neil Shastri-Hurst came second with 12,032 votes (31.6%) and Labour's Ben Wood came a distant third with 3,686 votes (9.7%).
• 2022 Birmingham Erdington by-election: The winner was Paulette Hamilton, standing for Labour, who got 55.5% of the votes on a turnout of 27% of the electorate, the lowest ever in the constituency.
• 2022 Tiverton and Honiton by-election: The by-election was won by Richard Foord of the Liberal Democrats with 22,537 votes, a majority of 6,144 over the Tory Helen Hurford who received 16,393 votes. Labour's Liz Pole, with just 1,562 votes, lost her deposit.
• 2022 Wakefield by-election: Won by Simon Lightwood of the Labour Party with 13,166 votes, the fewest since the 1931 General Election when Labour received 11,774 votes.
• 2023 West Lancashire by-election: Won by Labour's Ashley Dalton
• 2023 Selby and Ainsty by-election: Won by Labour's Keir Mather

The 2025 Runcorn and Helsby by-election was first by-election to be held under Starmer's premiership. It was won by Reform UK's Sarah Pochin with a majority of six votes, overturning a Labour majority of 14,696 votes at the UK/General election/2024.

 

Known Participants

18 of the 28 of the participants already have pages here:

Participant	Description
Hilary Benn	Warmongering son of the great peace and social justice activist Tony Benn, proving that the apple sometimes land far from the tree.
Yvette Cooper	Chair of the Home Affairs Select Committee
Richard Hermer	Consented to Palestine Action co-founder Richard Barnard being charged under Terrorism legislation
Darren Jones	UK MP who voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021
Liz Kendall	Blairite Labour party leadership contender in 2015, Member of Parliament for Leicester West
David Lammy	English Labour Party politician, WEF/GLT/2002, publicly apologised for nominating Jeremy Corbyn for Labour leader
Shabana Mahmood	UK MP
Ed Miliband	UK/Leader of the Opposition 2010-2015, WEF/Young Global Leaders/2008
Lisa Nandy	UK MP who Voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021
Lucy Powell	Labour MP, cabinet minister, frontbencher under Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer.
Angela Rayner	British Labour Party politician who supported harsh lockdowns. Received "gifts" from TV mogul Waheed Alli.
Ellie Reeves	UK MP who voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021
Rachel Reeves	Rachel Reeves coined the term 'Securonomics'<a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a>
Jonathan Reynolds	UK MP who voted YES to vaccine passports in 2021
Angela Smith	Baroness Smith of Basildon
Keir Starmer	A suspected deep state operative, who as Director of Public Prosecutions failed to prosecute Jimmy Savile but pressed on with charges against Julian Assange.
Jo Stevens	Labour MP, frontbencher under Jeremy Corbyn and Keir Starmer.
Wes Streeting	Streeting is being formed as a "new Tony Blair"

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