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The first biography of Keir Starmer. Keir Starmer is the first leader of the Labour Party with a genuinely working-class background since Neil Kinnock. Though dismissed as a Blairite centrist, he is from the left of the party by anyone else’s standards. A Conservative cabinet minister once classified him as “a Trot.” How did he reconcile his left wing views with maintaining law and order until 2013 as England and Wales Director of Public Prosecutions, Britain’s third most senior lawyer under both Labour and Tory governments? Meanwhile, his schooling included music classes by Fat Boy Slim.

Nigel Cawthorne started his writing career at the FINANCIAL TIMES and has written books on American history and testified before the US Senate. He has provided news comment on Sky, ITV, STV and BBC radio 4. He lives in Bloomsbury, London, and attended Reigate Grammar School like Keir Starmer.

* The first biography of Keir Starmer, 6 May local elections.
* Pieces together the contrasts in Starmer’s life as a young Labour left-winger who ended up running England and Wales’s most senior enforcement office under both Labour and the Conservatives before becoming Labour Leader.
Publicity plan: Daily Mail serialisation, reviews political magazines and websites, interviews.
* Previous praise for Nigel Cawthorne: Galloping pace - The Guardian ; ‘Raises deep questions.’ Financial Times Book of the Week; ‘Goes behind the headlines.’ – Independent; ‘A must read.’ - Jewish Chronicle; Devastating - Daily Mail

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