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Keir Starmer, the man at the bedside of British Labor

2020-05-07T19:21:32.043Z


PORTRAIT - Jeremy Corbyn's successor must not only confront the talent of Boris Johnson. It must reunite a divided party, heavily defeated last December and which has lost its credibility as a government party.


In London too, it takes two to dance tango. Especially in British political life, dominated by the struggle between two parties. However, since he became head of Labor, Keir Starmer was deprived of partner: Boris Johnson confined, hospitalized, bedridden, then on "paternity leave" at the birth of his son Wilfred, had ceased all activity last month . It reappeared in early May and the first oratorical competition was finally able to take place in the Commons, during ritual questions to the Prime Minister.

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Circumstances will not have helped the entry of the new opposition leader. The winner (by 56.2% of the votes in the first round) of the long consultation designating the party leader, Keir Starmer, 57, was to be crowned, on April 4, during a large public meeting where he was going to hold his first speech as leader of Labor. The coronavirus - which definitely does not vote Labor - deprived it of it: it delivered a speech while distancing

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Source: lefigaro

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