Properly, it is lastly occurred. After 15 years, the Tories are out, and Labour is in. Sir Keir Starmer is our new Prime Minister and Victoria Starmer is our new ‘first girl’. So, who’s our new “reluctant First Girl,” as she has been dubbed? And the way precisely will she be concerned in our political panorama for the subsequent 4 years?
Born in London within the ’70s, Victoria Starmer grew up in north west London. Her father was an economics lecturer whose Jewish household had emigrated from Poland, whereas her mom was a health care provider. Victoria studied at Cardiff College the place she earned a level in legislation and sociology. She went on to coach as a solicitor and labored at Hodge Jones & Allen, a London legislation agency. She now works in NHS occupational well being and has declared her intention to proceed in her function now that her husband has been elected as Prime Minister. “I get a direct line of sight every day into the challenges of the NHS and the morale of the workers”, Keir as soon as mentioned of her job. “She loves working for the NHS. She loves the workforce that she’s working with.”
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Victoria and Keir met over the cellphone when each had been solicitors. Keir reportedly known as her to query paperwork. As he hung up, he recalled listening to her say, “Who the f**ok does he suppose he’s?”
“You may suppose, ‘Not the perfect of begins,’ however it was completely basic Vic,” Keir mentioned to British Vogue of their assembly. “Very sassy, very right down to earth, no nonsense from anybody, together with from me.”
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Carolyn Harris, previously the Labour MP for Swansea East, added, “That’s very a lot Vic.” Requested to explain her, she mentioned, “Irreverent is the phrase I’d use. She is a litmus paper, actually the yin to his yang.”
The pair later met once more at a authorized dinner and Keir discovered her to be “grounded, sassy, humorous, streetwise — and totally beautiful too,” as he advised The Instances.
