The five years that shaped Sir Keir Starmer
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- Опубліковано 22 лис 2024
- ‘As Director of Public Prosecutions, Keir Starmer oversaw some of the most high profile prosecutions of the Cameron Coalition years, finally bringing to justice the murderers of Stephen Lawrence and securing the conviction of MPs accused of fiddling their expenses.
But was he good at running a big public sector organisation? Did it teach him how to cut the budget? Is he more a top official than a politician?
Our political editor has been delving into the five years as Chief Prosecutor that Keir Starmer never stops talking about in his campaign to become Prime Minister.’
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I'd far rather have a PM whose early career was based on defending human rights...than someone who was literally a cause of the 2008 Financial Crisis, and who has sought to tear up human rights at every turn.
Defending terrorists I think you mean.
Don’t worry Rachel Reeves who worked for the Bank of England and HBOS who had to be bailed out, just before the financial crash will be Chancellor of the Exchequer. Keir is a human rights lawyer who thinks its ok to cut water and gas of a blockaded people.
How about putting teens behind bars for four years for a bag of rice.
@@MacrobianNomad disgusting excuse for a human being. How low our politics have sunk. Despair.
@@vinay7397 he might be talking about Keirs choice for chancellor Rachel Reeves who worked for one of the instigators of financial crisis, HBOS just before the crash
Now Channel 4 are blaming Starmer for Tory austerity,nice try Gary.
Come back in 5 years after starmer has spent his entire term in office continuing Tory policies
Gibbon is such a tory, theres never any balance with this guy. He might awell run for the tories himself
They're showing how comfortable he was with it. Gibbon is not a Tory, that's a ridiculous statement, C4 are the one mainstream broadcaster that has been on their case constantly
@@alexanderstefanov6474 No, that was the LibDems I think. Nick Clegg and so on.
@@Sean-xy4hk Corbyn fan club speaks.
I’d rather have a lawyer in charge than an investment banker, or journalist.
Or Nigel. 😂😂😂😂
@JonnyGertmunger-ui9sd have you used getting a vaccine as an insult?
I totally agree. Always better to have someone who cannot define what a woman is. 🤣🤣🤣 UK is cooked lol.
@@Dazziano9 has “defining a woman” played a key role in your development or something?
Are you really stuck on something so idiotic?
@JonnyGertmunger-ui9sd erm…..
@@isaacjackson3801 these people are very lost at this point.
Can I just say, I think this is top class political journalism. Brilliant work from Gary Gibbon. Real first page of history stuff. Really critical and analytical perspective. And looking over Starmer's record in a forensic way. Would be far better if more journalists took this sort of perspective.
And Starmer also let jimmy Savile off the hook.
Did you interview him and then slice it up and edit it to spin it? Why can't we just watch the full thing rather than being tret like kids who need to be told what to think after every 15 second clip? Or is it an old interview? Would have been nice to know.
Tret? WTF is that meant to mean? Did you mean "treated"?
“You don’t see the public service as Sir Humphrey type figures”?
Starmer: 😅
The fact that the media seems to dislike him makes me think he may be ok.
He is OK
He has done well
That cannot be denied
Perhaps The Media would enjoy the excitement of The 1st female Lab Leader....?
@@nicolemurphy2629😂😂😂😂😂😂 keep drinking the coolaide 😂
You need a brain 🧠 transplant just to think he is okay
Can prime Minister Kier Starmer make a difference on unemployment and inflation in the UK
5 years of when his dad was a toolmaker and his mother was a nurse
Great piece - definitley should have been longer.
I’m just waiting to learn what his father’s occupation was, anybody know?
His mother was a nurse and his father was a toolmaker. It's all there on Wikipedia to read, although what exactly they mean by 'toolmaker' is not made clear.
@@andrewjones-productions Toolmaker is a highly skilled job.
But I'd say that the parents that made the real "Tool" were Rishi Sunak's.
Tool maker ;) But he grew up with limited resources compared to many former tory PMs.
Toolmakers make ‘tools’.., say no more. 😅
@@formxshapeToolmakers make the tools that make the tools.
This scrutiny is exactly the type you start to get when you become Prime Minister. And rightly so.
No, this scrutiny is exactly the type you start to get when a candidate who isn't a Tory becomes PM.
Seriously, have you EVER seen this kind of hatchet job from a major media outlet on a Tory?
I've been watching politics since Harold Wilson, and you NEVER see this sort of dishonest reporting on the Tories.
I have never expected equality in reporting, but it might occasionally be nice to see that the media might want to take their role seriously...
@@davidcolin6519 Agreed. The scrutiny of Starmer, and the standards that he's being held to, are far beyond those that our last 5 (assuming I've kept count) Conservative PMs have been subjected to.
I can see this as someone who won't even be voting Labour.
@@_Stroda it wouldn't matter whether it were Labour or LibDem, or even Green. If the leader is a threat to the Tories' hegemony, they come in for such vile and unfounded attacks that you have to have someone as squeaky clean as Starmewr to avoid the sort of campaigns that had, for example, Neil Kinnock being branded "Unelectable" because he fell over, or Ed Miliband being declared likewise because of a f*cking bacon sandwich!
I really, seriously hope that one of Starmer's first acts will be to enact every single one of the Leveson enquiry recommendations, and that, if that doesn't have the desired effect, break up the UK media organisations after a Monopolies Commision investigation.
BTW, nor will I.
I am pretty sure his father was a toolmaker)
I dunno, he would have mentioned it if that was case.
How'd you guess?
His father who rarely spoke to Kier worked in a factory as kier always tells us, what kier the liar always leaves out is , it wasnt “a” factory. Kiers dad worked in his own factory. The factory owners son, Keir Starmer
@@youtubedislikes3756 Nothing wrong with that!! My Grandfather owned his own factory. He was a dyed in the wool Tory!! My Dad voted Labour!! I vote labour!!!
@@richardvernon317 i dont see much wrong with being born in a rich or comfortable life. Tony Benn was an aristocrat, id love to have the chance to vote for the late veteran of british politics in his prime.
Starmer is as doer, unlike the tories who only talk talk talk but no do do do.
Shame on you. Starmer is just idealistic. A doer? What exactly are you on about? Sunak is pragmatic. We use the words idealistic and pragmatic just so you know for you don't sound British by saying a doer. Starmer is idealistic, incompetent, evasive. Sunak is pragmatic, competent, frank when answering questions. You know what making u turns like Starmer does is not being pragmatic, being evasive when asked questions is not competence or pragmatism.
That's fine as long as he does the right things. If he's doing for the 1% and not for the 99%, then he's doing the wrong things.
Starmer is a liar - his inability to answer basic questions - like on the LBC video the other day, don't be a fool.
Thatcher was also a doer, as were Hitler and Stalin.
It was literally the Tories cuts he was implementing...
Now hes a national disgrace
Starmer as a human rights award winner please grant Shamima Begum a pardon!
Keir Starmer is the man who isnt afraid to tell lie after lie after lie. Called Corbyn a friend then said he was never his friend.
With friends like Keir who needs enemies?
America’s man, tried so hard to deport Assange.
Corbyn fan club speaks.
It's called politics, mate. Get used to it. Trying to deport Assange was his Job, you f*cknuckle. You might at least try to understand how the UK legal system works before you criticise those that work in it.
I would say that when both extreme right and extreme left are criticising you with equakl vigour, you're probably on something approaching the right path to govern, and is something that both Corbyn and Sunak have spectacularly failed to understand.
@@nicksimmons7234 He lied. Those are facts. If you deny the lies you sound like the blue rinsers that idolise Bodger.
He really is dreadful
So he used to bust terrorists but now let's them into the country and pays them? The British patriots need guns like yesterday.. I hope a good rich person can get them the firearms they need..
I don’t live in UK or pay tax
I am external but love to follow Uk politics
Why does the host feels the need to repeatedly add the term "left-wing" on human rights lawyer? Without it, you will have institutional abuses that the everyday common man faced and are woefully inadequately equipped? Furthermore, Starmer has been robust in his role as prosecutor and should that not be taken as a net positive using the very same flawed logic?
when I was looked after by the CPS i was told that they were working on a thread and had nothing. This was Oxford a rather well off city pre covid. Thanks Keir, "ahead of schedule"
This is an important video showing who Keir Starmer really is as an older man , as opposed to the former self that he chose to highlight instead to win over the Labour leadership. He reminds me of nick clegg who used a certain persona and platform to win the youth vote and then became dum to david Cameron’s tweedle Dee
The biggest crime comitted in this video was done by the decorator, combining that beige and brown scotch pattern carpet with those Tardis blue walls.
Amazing. Would you mind giving us an interview? 🎤
Son of a tool maker, a tool maker indeed.
Just because he delivered austerity doesn't mean he thought it was good. It is the place of a civil servant (even a very senior one) to follow the elected Government's commands.
And the conflation of him doing it quickly with doing it 'eagerly' or 'readily'...
Channel 4 are normally better than this.
@@joevenables3393 Exactly. That he reached the stated goal quickly is just evidence of him being an effective manager, why would you not want that in your Prime Minister?
You're forgetting he is establishment he is ruthless and he is the dark Lord of the Sith And he will execute order 66
He didn’t deliver on the grooming gangs
He did, he reviewed and overhauled how sexual abuse cases were prosecuted so the processes were more robust.
Cases like the Rochdale and Rotherham grooming gangs were prosecuted during his tenure as DPP.
Seems like the guy who worked under him in cps has some sour grapes
Seems like you can't handle Starmer being criticised. The guy under him is just telling his truth.
@@Morning404 No problem with criticism when it is justified, but Starmer had one of the highest prosecution and success rates of any recent DPP. You're welcome to check the data, it is openly available.
What he said didn't seem like an issue.
Ah yes, any criticism of kid starver must be vindictive, not like his treatment of Corbyn
@@alexanderstefanov6474 That's very much the Tory way, isn't it? Call people by names which have literally NOTHING to do with what they have achieved.
So, you're happy with your projection, are you? Happy to support a government which would literally have been happy to starve kids during lockdown until a f*cking FOOTBALLER embarrassed them into feeding kids!
Unfortunately, the literal kid starving continues under these appalling people who are supposed to govern the country. 4,3 MILLION children in poverty in the UK. Nor can you even fall back on the typical claim that the parents are somehow responsible, because 70% of those children have at least one parent in full time employment.
My only question for you is "How do you sleep at night?" Unfortunately, I already know, because only a psychopath could possibly blame Kier Starmer for starving f**ing children.
Boring
The son of a toolmaker who made a tool = Keir Starmer
A sellout, is going to sell this country out too.
He's a politician, that's pretty much what politicians have to do.
The difference is that he actually has some morality and knows that he has to improve the UK for the population, all the population and not just died-in-the-wool Labour supporters.
And until the country has some means of PR, that is what you are always going to get.
@@davidcolin6519 hes not going to improve the population by doing away with the n h s, is he?
There is nothing left to sell. Tories sold it years ago.
😊
The human rights lawyer? Or do you think Farage (the former commodities trader, current Trump suck-up and until-recently Fiverr creator) is going to win in 5 years time?
Choose which one you mean, you’re a moron either way.
Keir is an absolute lunatic, not my PM 🤮
Look at how he’s treated Diane Abbott- what makes you think he’s going to be any different to women he’s never met.
and not only her, there are many victims of that cruel game.
His dad was a toolmaker too
He kept that a secret 😊
Can’t believe he was once a DPP. What could possibly explain his meteoric rise?
I look forward to many prosecutions over the PPE scandal and the covid inquiry... It's gonna be a good 5 years.
As a foreigner looking in,I am scratching my head wondering what is he offering the people of uk ,nothing really.... The tories seemingly have done such a terrible job that starmer will become the pm by doing nothing much at all....
I'd be more inspired by a potato.
Does that mean you'd prefer Corbyn?
@@mrspeaker6720 Of course, for all hai faults, I’d prefer Corbyn. But he was never going to be allowed to run Britain. Far too much of a threat to US hegemony and capital interest in the UK. Starmer on the other hand, potsto perfect for The US military industrial
complex and the billionaires of Britain, which is why they’re all rallying behind him.
@@mrspeaker6720 We were told we were not allowed Corbyn. Someone with his policies would be nice. Like, not a Tory.
@@Nick-kb6jd Corbyn's policies can't win an election from opposition. He was too stupid to understand that, and so doomed Labour to longer in opposition
@@Nick-kb6jd Typical of someone waving a Plasticine flag to favour a Communist like that other overgrown student common room revolutionary Corbyn.
What about thé same reportage on Rishi?? Go KEIR!
His father was a toolmaker, and Stoma is certainly a tool.
CPS all he did was make it easier for criminals you might get change but it wont be good.
He overhauled the way that we prosecute sexual abuse cases so that investigations are now more robust; high-profile cases such as the Rochdale and Rotherham grooming gangs were prosecuted during his time as DPP as a result.
Is he boasting about being head if the cps? Ok , so starmer lets start with those you didnt prosecute.... we r waiting
Human Rights Lawyer to Chief Public Prosecutor to Opposition Leader to Prime Minister, one side to the other constantly
Which adds to his experience and knowledge.
Who is Starmer during politics would be an even better question.
*_My dad was a tool maker_*
Slimey flip flop starmer
Still can't tell the difference between Arthur and marthur, my brother was at reigate grammar and said he is a messer ,total u turn expert
And his father was a toolmaker 😂😂😂😂
Rishi Sunak's dad was also a "Tool" maker. The difference is in the utility of the tools in question.
And he is like the new foreman on the factory floor Not one of the boys gelling with the workers he will do things by the book He is ruthless he will cut down wasteful spending god help those on benefits No doubt he will steal a few ideas from the reform party he will probably stop the boat's like he said Through he might go about it In a more draconian light. He is in his mid 60s he hasn't got time to be popular
He is to all intense and purposes The Dark Lord of the Sith and he will execute order 66
Top lad, I'm pretty sure his father was a Tool Maker... wonder what his mother did
NHS nurse
Seems like he was told to cut and he did as he was told. Not sure how critical you can be of him?
yea he is nothing, conformist without soul. Like Tony Blaire without charisma
Blair is a war criminal
Do you want someone who does good job or an entertainer? We had Bojo and we all know how that turned out...
@@LosAlamos4 The Starmerfuhrer is neither.
What i took away from this was that the guy, whos so wooden you could put a nest on him, is so willing and eager to please that he would happily be seen as having sociopathic tendancies. This isnt a prime minister, this is pinocchio.
In response to these "hard" choices he picks the simplest answer that pleases his bosses. It's only a difficult decision insomuch as you have to bear it's direct negative consequences.
Flip flop man
And under his directorship the CPS staff thought the job he was doing was awful and those who said so were sent for retraining rather than trying to adjust things.
That authoritarian dictatorship approach has carried on into the red tories where he's shipped people off to israel for programming and suspended or sacked those who voice any criticism of his middle eastern paymasters.
A former human rights lawyer who openly supported the shutting off of power, water and food for the collective punishment of the palestinian people which is a war crime.
If anyone should be able to handle the ebb and flow of questions its a lawyer and yet he stumbles over the basics preferring to ignore the question and either blurt out a prepared soundbite or break eye contact and hope the person goes away.
You're totally right. Starmer is an authoriatrian liar.
You're deluded. He did a great job at CPS. Changed the culture on prosecuting rape, compare conviction rates then and now. He charged politicians of both parties with expenses fraud.
Politicians don't need to answer questions like lawyers, the job requires clear communication in words that will punch through whether heard on TV, radio or in print; while avoiding being misquoted or handing your opponents ammunition. In a courtroom, there are rules and an impartial referee. No such thing in politics. The deck is stacked against you.
@@thl205 They should at least be able to give some kind of response though. Starmer prefers to avoid eye contact and hold his breath until the one asking leaves or are ushered away by his goon squad
@@andybrown4284 That’s not been my impression at all 🤷♂️
The individual in question should not be considered trustworthy. That concludes my statement.
You can’t be decisive and a lefty at the same time apparently, according to channel 4
He’d rather work for Davos than Westminster
Dum then dum now.😂
One of the worst politicians alive today. Get ready.
New parties new thoughts New forgin policy
No more tax money for others wars
Good to know, yet another reason NOT to vote for him as 'leader' of Labour.
A really interesting video.
starmer's labour project, and new labour before it, look very different when viewed through the lens of criminology or the justice system specifically.
First impression when you see him eveil liar
I'm pretty sure he's a political chameleon, or perhaps shapeshifter is the better word
He tried to stop Brexit and was in cahoots with Corbyn
The only 2 good things about him
Mother Theresa was pretty ruthless. Watch Christopher Hitchens' Hell's Angel Doc.
She was albanian
As the election draws near for July 4, I see no difference between him and Richie Sunak. Both of those men have a sense of arrogance that everything that they did was so right, even though they have their constituents who have experienced their policies are saying to them that their policies was horrible, and it was detrimental to the livelihood, and he’s continuously saying he did nothing wrong. In the segment one of his colleagues, while, as a crown prosecutor said that she was too over, handed, and then the segment cut. The multiple conservative minister is saying that mr Starmer was bullish, and they really like that about him. The labor party has become a light version of the conservative party
A dangerous man
I'm still voting REFORM UK!!! 🎉🎉
REFORM!
REFORM!!
REFORM!!!
Reform your brain mate it’s clearly broke 😂
I can’t out of Colliers Wood station on the nights of the riots to the back door of the early leaning centre trying to be set on fire. The is a ‘minor charge’ Gary?
A bad actor.
Starmers dad the toolmaker that's best thing he's said, and so true... Joke of a man...
You're forgetting he is establishment he is ruthless and he is the dark Lord of the Sith And he will execute order 66
He is clearly a good person. It's time we had someone with decency and integrity
A good person doesn't support another person (Jeremy Corbyn) and then backstab them when the opportunity arises.
You clearly don't know much about him so....
Good person... who gon tell him about how Kier got his knighthood...
Guess ill be the one to rip this plaster off for ya... He got it for getting Jimmy Saville off the hook.
Lovely bloke. Just ask Gary McKinnon.
He was annoying before and after
Unelected Public servant does what he is ordered to do by his elected government, does his duty.
New parties new thought new foreign policy
No more tax money for others war
Goodbye to old parties thought
New parties new thoughts
So is he to blame for why its so hard to prosecute anyone in the UK any more?
So, ran with the Hounds and hunted with the Foxes. Sounds about right.
Who was Keir Starmer in the 1980s...?
Can't wait for a sense of hope in this country, just some actual politicians who aren't just interested in London fame and money.
"disgace" ????
Fools commenting how this guy would be better than the Tories 😂 Go read the Declassified UK article about him.
Source it; where am I finding it?
i feel queasy watching this guy talk out of his you know what
Starmer is a mess!
His dad was a toolmaker. That is all we know
Nah, Sunak's dad made the much greater "tool".
his dad owned the company, wasn't just a mere toolmaker. starver repeats this line to sound like 'the common man'. a fraud.
@@mollycuddle9990 Go on then, prove it.
This is a LIE and it is the second time that I have seen it here. If he had been the owner, he would appear in the list of owners at Companies House, he does not. It woulod be one of the simplest searches in the world to carry out, and I have done it myself. He does not appear in the ownership of ANY company except, would you believe? The company that he DID own, which was a f*cking DONKEY sanctuary.
If you really believe that he was "The Owner", not just a toolmaker,m then PROVE IT or STFU.
Seriously, if the worst thing you can come up with is a provable lie, nthen I suggest you give up, especially when there are very real frauds in the f*cking GOVERNMENT.
@@mollycuddle9990 Blatant lies and therefore misinformation. You're just about to be reported for it.
before? A pratt
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If his lips are moving he is busy telling lies
You confuse your politicians. The PROVEN liars are; BoJob, Truss, Sunak, C/Hunt, Cummings, Davis, Gillis and the likes of 30p Lee.
Starmer has been forced into changing political claims because the Toriesa have continued to shrink/sink the country's economy.
They didn’t ask him about Assange.
A lawyer
About time a non career politician is given a chance. Lets see what he can do
It will just be a puppet of Tony Blair.
Sunak was only elected in 2015 after a career in banking. Hardly a career politician. The UK will change one plonker for another. Billionaire Boy Rishi for Billionaire’s favourite boy Keir, the man who attends parties paid for by Rupert Murdoch.
@@henrihsdh Funny how you say that all the while supporting Richard Tice, a literal puppet of farage who only cares about his fame in politics
@@henrihsdh Which is, even so, better than the alternative. Expect the worst, hope for the best. I can accept another Tony B. Liar, especially if that is the very worst.
We've certainloy seen how absolutely terrible to Tories can be... and they are, apparently, the best that the Cons have to offer. That should give you pause for thought.
Did you know his dad was a toolmaker?
Yes we know. So what?
@@maneshipocrates2264 just wondering if people might have missed the 3,479 times he’s brought it up. 😒
& what part of his career did he highlight in his video to become labour leader, not the establishment, status quo, clamp down and cuts , shun strikers etc he is today.
Keir Starmer leadership video
Keir Starmer’ s leadership campaign video was all about helping people in strikes and protests ua-cam.com/video/F-Yru2Ridk0/v-deo.htmlfeature=shared.
So he basically highlighted his earlier career to give a false impression to the left and the young who had become the core of The Labour Party membership. He also kept hidden that he was an ardent Zionist
Thanks for this expose , but it won’t change anything because so few of the public masses actually watch serious news. He basically lies to please whatever audience, happy to do that to dupe the left and will get into being prime minister on the back of it.
LOL just watching this Keir Starmer couldnt get anymore establishment if he tried. Rishi Sunak is a middle manager at a hedge fund and Keir Starmer is a middle manager at a law firm. Both of them are technocrats cut from the same cloth. They both have the same world view and think the same. If youre expecting change - think again. This is why politics is the dustbin for talent, because unless you share the same beige world view as everyone in government for the last 3 decades, no way are you getting the top job. If you have any talent and a brain on your shoulders that needs to think freely, you run. Well, the reality is that PM is not even particularly influential these days. There are many companies that are more powerful than countries these days.
Well, if you're so talented, why don't YOU run?
@@LeafHuntresstalented people dont get picked
@@euphoriaggaminghd High opinion of yourself haven't you...
In the first week Ed of government a ban on offshore wind turbines has already been lifted as well as new plans being put into place that Sunak has categorically opposed. What makes you say that it will be more of the same?
Labour 2024 labour 2024 ❤❤❤
When he talks he sounds like Frank Sidebottom. That’s my main concern with him potentially being PM.
Better than sounding like a clown, a mouthpiece for the Tufton Street Mafia or someone who is so out of touch he literally doesn't even know anybody from the working class.
Every time I hear him speak these days, I remember his speech when he became PM. What an absolute crock that was.
Wasn't his dad a "stool maker" ?
I made a stool this morning....