For his work as the head of the Crown Prosecution Service and Director of Public Prosecutions, Starmer, 59, was knighted in 2014 for’services to law and criminal justice’ (DPP).
He had recently stood down from the job, which he had held for five years between 2008 and 2013, at the time of his knighthood.
Has Keir Starmer been knighted? Why is Keir Starmer a Sir?
He had recently stood down from the job, which he had held for five years between 2008 and 2013, at the time of his knighthood.
He refuses to utilize his title, telling the Hampstead & Highgate Express in 2015 that he never liked titles.
During his tenure, he handled a number of high-profile cases, including the Stephen Lawrence case, in which he prosecuted two men suspected of murdering the 18-year-old.
He resigned as DPP in 2013 and ran for Parliament in 2015, winning the Holburn and St Pancras constituency in London with a majority of over 17,000 people.
Mr. Starmer married Victoria, a solicitor, in 2007. They met while he was still working in the legal field.
