Tom Baldwin
tom baldwin
kEIr starmer: the biography (2024)
At the time this biography was published, in February 2024, Keir Starmer (born 1962) was leader of the Labour Party, in opposition to the Conservative government led by Rishi Sunak. He was the son of a toolmaker and a nurse, who was educated at a selective grammar school. He obtained his undergraduate degree in law at the University of Leeds, and his postgraduate Bachelor of Civil Law at Oxford University. After being called to the Bar as a barrister, Starmer undertook criminal defence work, developing a specialism in human right issues. He was appointed a QC in 2002 In 2008 he was appointed Director of Pubic Prosecutions, a role he held until 2013. On completion of his five year term as Director of Public Prosecutions he was elected to the House of Commons as the Labour MP for the London constituency of Holborn & St.Pancras. After Jeremy Corbyn resigned following the 2019 general election, Starmer was elected as leader of the Labour Party.
Robert Shrimsley of the Financial Times wrote of Baldwin’s biography: ‘Highly readable … Baldwin has peeled back more layers than anyone else’. Andrew Marr, reviewing the book in the New Statesman, wrote: ‘Tom Baldwin’s portrait is of a tough, conscientious, and kindly man with the right values’.
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Tom Baldwin attended comprehensive school in Thame, Oxfordshire, and gained his degree in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at Balliol College, Oxford. Tom He worked as a journalist for the Sunday Telegraph, where he became political editor. He then moved to the Times, where he was deputy political editor, Washington bureau chief, and assistant editor. He was director of communications and strategy at the Labour Party, and was a senior political adviser to Ed Millband when he was leader of the Labour Party.
