Victoria Starmer is a British former solicitor and the wife of Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Labour Party. She is currently working for the National Health Service as an occupational health worker.
Victoria Starmer Wikipedia/Biography
Starmer was born Victoria Alexander in 1973 in London and she was raised in Gospel Oak she is 51 years old as of 2024. She is a White British who follows Christianity as her belief.
Victoria Starmer Education
Victoria did her schooling at Channing School in Highgate, London, and later graduated with degrees in Bachelor’s of law and Bachelor’s in sociology from Cardiff University, where she was president of the student union from 1994 to 1995.
Victoria Starmer Parents
Victoria’s father Bernard was an economics lecturer and he is an observant Jew by descent. She was born in a Polish-Jewish family that migrated to the United Kingdom before World War II. Her mother, Barbara is a community doctor in the NHS who died in 2020, but she converted to Judaism after marriage. Starmer has an older sister named Judith.
Victoria Starmer Husband
Victoria first met Keir Starmer, who was a senior barrister at Doughty Street Chambers, in the early 2000s. Despite this rocky start, they grew close, became engaged in 2004, and married on May 6, 2007, at the Fennes Estate in Essex. The couple have a 16-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl, neither of whom has ever appeared publicly before.
“They’re a really good mixture of being protected and bringing me back down to earth the whole time,” the PM explained during an appearance on the Table Manners podcast. “Last year I won The Spectator Politician of the Year Award and they gave me a framed certificate which I then took home about 10 p.m., and our boy was sitting on the settee with his feet up watching telly. I came in, gave it to him and said ‘What do you think of this?’ and he looked at it, without really taking his eyes off the telly, he passed it back to me and said ‘How did you blag that then?’. It was just fantastic!” 1cosmopolitan
Victoria Starmer Career
Starmer is a qualified solicitor and she worked for Hodge Jones & Allen, a Soho law firm specialising in street crime. After her marriage, she worked in NHS occupational health. She will further continue in her role after her husband was elected prime minister.
Starmer has been an active supporter of the Labour Party since her university days. In 1993, as the education and welfare officer at Cardiff University, she protested against the education reforms proposed by the then-Tory education secretary, John Patten.
When Keir Starmer was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the 2014 New Year Honours for his contributions to law and justice, she became Lady Starmer.
A vegetarian herself, Starmer and her husband raised their children as vegetarians until they turned ten, after which they were given the choice to eat meat. During the 2024 general election, she chose to maintain a low profile and did not participate in the campaign trail. 2wikipedia Â
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