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muriel_volestrangler

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7. He got the knighthood for his work as Director of Public Prosecutions
Mon Apr 6, 2020, 01:46 AM
Apr 2020

a position to which he was surprisingly appointed, after his work as a human rights lawyer.

After qualifying for the bar, he acted exclusively as a defence lawyer specialising in human rights issues, before being appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 2002. In 2008, he became Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for England and Wales, and Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), holding these roles until 2013. For his role as Director of Public Prosecutions, Starmer was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB) in the 2014 New Year Honours.
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Keir Rodney Starmer was born in Southwark, London, on 2 September 1962 and grew up in the small town of Oxted in Surrey. He was one of five children of Josephine (née Baker), a nurse, and Rodney Starmer, a toolmaker. His mother had Still's disease. His parents were both firm Labour Party supporters, and named him after the first Labour Party MP, Keir Hardie.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keir_Starmer

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