Keir
Sir Keir Starmer, Britain's current prime-minister and the proud leader of our Labour Party was born into a working class family in 1962. Auspiciously, he was named after Keir Hardie, the first parliamentary leader of the Labour Party (1906-1908). Sir Keir married Victoria Alexander in 2007 and they have two teenage children who have been effectively kept away from the often crazed glare of modern publicity. The Labour Party were voted back into power last summer. In the three years before that election, Sir Keir had done a great job of remodelling the party - rooting out the excesses of left wing extremism to make the party electable once again. Once a very successful lawyer, he became our country's Director of Public Prosecutions in 2008. In that role, he had many thorny legal cases to handle - including dealing with terrorists from Northern Ireland and elsewhere. In this job, he proved himself to be a great team leader and a dedicated public se...