Sir Keir Starmer became the UK’s new prime minister after his Labour Party swept to power in a landslide general election victory in July 2024.

The son of a tool maker and a nurse, who studied at Leeds University and St Edmund Hall, Oxford, Starmer is a former human rights defence lawyer, knighted in 2014 in recognition of his work as head of the Crown Prosecution Service.

He lived in Kentish Town in the London Borough of Camden with his wife Victoria and two children. When he took office, he was expected to move into the larger flat above Number 11 but he stuck with tradition and now lives at 10 Downing Street.