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Three years ago Sir Keir Starmer seriously considered throwing in the towel after seeing Labour crash to a humiliating defeat in the Hartlepool by-election.
But he is now preparing for the final push that could make him the UK ’s next prime minister.
A one -time lefty lawyer’ from north London , he has been depicted by opponents as the epitome of a self-satisfied liberal metropolitan elitist.
Sir Keir was called to the bar in 1987 and specialised in human rights.
He was among an idealistic group of progressive lawyers who formed Doughty Street chambers.
Represented defendants facing the death penalty and drew up legal arguments against the Blair government’s Iraq invasion.
In 2008 he was appointed director of public prosecutions and was awarded a knighthood.
In 2015 he was elected MP for safe Labour seat of Holborn and St Pancras only to see the party suffer its second general election defeat in a row.
Sir Keir is a highly competitive, box-to-box, midfield dynamo .
The 61-year-old 's passion for football runs deep away from Westminster .
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