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Lady Starmer
Starmer in 2024
Born
Victoria Alexander

1973 or 1974 (age 49–50)
London, England
Other names"Vic"[1]
Education
Alma materCardiff University (LL.B.)
Occupations
  • Solicitor
  • Occupational health worker
Known forSpouse of the prime minister of the United Kingdom (2024–present)
Political partyLabour
Spouse
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(m. 2007)​
Children2

Victoria, Lady Starmer (née Alexander; born 1973 or 1974) is a British former solicitor and the wife of Keir Starmer, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and leader of the Labour Party. In July 2024 she was working for the National Health Service (NHS).

Early life

Starmer was born Victoria Alexander in London in 1973 or 1974, and raised in Gospel Oak, north west London. Her father Bernard, an economics lecturer, is an observant Jew who was born in Hackney in 1929 to a Polish-Jewish family that migrated to the United Kingdom before World War II.[1] Her mother, Barbara, a community doctor in the NHS who died in 2020, converted to Judaism upon marriage.[2][3] Starmer has an older sister, Judith.[4]

She was educated at Channing School in Highgate, London,[5] and later graduated with degrees in law and sociology from Cardiff University, where she was president of the student union from 1994 to 1995.[1]

Career

Starmer qualified as a solicitor four years after graduating, and worked for Hodge Jones & Allen, a Soho law firm specialising in street crime.[1] Since getting married, she has worked in NHS occupational health.[6][7] She will reportedly continue in her role after her husband was elected prime minister.[8]

Personal life

Starmer has been a supporter of the Labour Party since at least her student years, notably protesting against the education reforms of the then-Tory education secretary John Patten during her tenure as Cardiff University's education and welfare officer in 1993.[1]

Victoria met Keir Starmer, who was then a senior barrister with Doughty Street Chambers, in the early 2000s, reportedly saying "Who the fuck does he think he is?" after their first conversation.[9] The two eventually became close, getting engaged in 2004 and married on 6 May 2007 on the Fennes Estate in Essex.[1][10] The couple have two children, a son, who was born a year after their wedding, and a daughter, born two years after that. Both are being brought up in the Jewish faith of their mother.[11][12]

Starmer is a vegetarian. She and her husband raised their children as vegetarians until they were 10 years old, at which point they were given the option of eating meat.[13] She kept a relatively low profile during the 2024 general election, having chosen not to appear on the campaign trail.[14]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f Strick, Katie (2 July 2024). "Victoria Starmer: the no-nonsense solicitor set to become Britain's next first lady". The Standard. Retrieved 2 July 2024.
  2. ^ "Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine Death Notices". Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  3. ^ "NHS Leadership Academy Coaching Register 2013-2014" (PDF). NHS Leadership Academy. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  4. ^ Fraser, Tali (22 May 2024). "A future First Lady? With prime ministerial power in reach for Sir Keir Starmer, his wife Victoria could emerge from her north London cocoon into the global limelight. But who is she?". Tatler. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  5. ^ Baldwin, Tom (17 February 2024). "The private life of Keir Starmer — his wife and family reveal all". The Times. Retrieved 27 May 2024.
  6. ^ "Keir Starmer: The sensible radical". New Statesman. 31 March 2020. Archived from the original on 5 April 2020.
  7. ^ Pickard, Jim (7 May 2020). "Keir Starmer: 'The government has been slow in nearly all of the major decisions'". Financial Times. Archived from the original on 15 June 2020.
  8. ^ Thomson, Alice (8 June 2024). "Meet Victoria Starmer, Keir's wife and most trusted adviser". The Times. Retrieved 9 June 2024.
  9. ^ Franks, Josephine. "Meet Victoria Starmer, the new prime minister's wife". Sky News. Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
  10. ^ "What do we know about Sir Keir Starmer's wife, Lady Starmer?". Tatler. 24 April 2020. Archived from the original on 18 August 2020.
  11. ^ Harpin, Lee (16 November 2020). "Starmer: Our kids are being brought up to know their Jewish backgrounds". The Jewish Chronicle. Archived from the original on 25 September 2022.
  12. ^ Riann, Phillip (5 July 2024). "Who Is Victoria Starmer, Britain's New "First Lady"?". Vogue.
  13. ^ Holl-Allen, Genevieve (26 July 2023). "Sir Keir Starmer: I didn't let my children eat meat until they were 10". The Telegraph. Archived from the original on 8 October 2023. Retrieved 13 September 2023.
  14. ^ Whannel, Kate (5 July 2024). "Victoria Starmer: Who is the new PM's wife?". BBC News. Retrieved 5 July 2024.

External links

Media related to Victoria Starmer at Wikimedia Commons

Unofficial roles
Preceded by Spouse of the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
2024–present 		Incumbent
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