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Keir Starmer's profile: Devout Arsenal fan to become UK Prime Minister

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Britain's Labour Party leader Keir Starmer delivers a speech during a victory rally at the Tate Modern in London early on July 5, 2024. The UK's Labour Party swept to power after winning the country's general election, crossing the 326-seat threshold for a working majority in the House of Commons. [AFP]

UK Labour leader Keir Starmer is an ex-human rights lawyer and public prosecutor who will have to focus his relentless work ethic and methodical mind to fixing the country.

Starmer will be the oldest person to become British prime minister in almost half a century, and comes just nine years since he was first elected to parliament.

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