Extremely quiet Sir Keir Starmer’s wife came out of hiding to join the spotlight today as they celebrated Labour’s historic election victory with an impassioned kiss.
Lady Victoria closed her eyes and relished a clinch with Sir Keir during his address at a victory rally in central London this morning, just hours before she began a new life in Downing Street.
The public display of affection was a rare step for Sir Keir’s ‘reluctant First Lady’ – a woman so ‘sassy’ and straight-talking that the first thing she said after meeting him was: ‘Who the f*** does he think he is?’
However, after Labour’s resounding victory and smashing of the Conservatives, Lady Victoria Starmer can no longer dodge the spotlight and today she and her husband entered No 10.
‘Lady Vic’, as she is known fondly in party circles, has been missing from the election campaign completely.
But later she waved with her husband, although the couple’s two teenage children, said to be ‘completely freaked out’ by the idea of being in the public eye, were not paraded.
Moving into Downing Street comes just weeks after their 16-year-old son took his GCSEs. The couple have also shielded their 13-year-old daughter from the limelight – never naming either children or naming them in public.
Sir Keir Starmer and his wife got married 17 years ago, but he said that his wife has her own life, which she protects vigorously.
Lady Vic’s father was an economic lecturer who moved to the UK from Poland before the Second World War. Her father is Jewish and her mother, who died in 2020, was a community doctor who converted to the faith.
Far from the working class background, which her husband likes to talk about, she went to the exclusive private Channing School in Highgate – one of London’s most exclusive areas.
She graduated from Cardiff University with degrees in sociology and law, and she served as the student union president there from 1995 to 1996.
Around four years later, Britain’s First Couple met – but had an almighty row when they met that ended with a shower of expletives from Mrs Starmer who then told him to get lost.
She slammed down the phone after yelling: ‘Who the f*** does he think he is?’ Keir heard it all but by 2007 they were married.
What sparked the cascade of swears? Her future husband asking if she was ‘100 per cent sure’ her work was correct.
Sir Keir later told Vogue: ‘It was absolutely classic Vic. Very sassy, very down to earth, no nonsense from anyone, including from me’.
Undeterred, he asked her down the pub to make up for his blunder. She gave him a second chance and fast forward to today they have been married for 17 years.
If Sir Keir Starmer’s wife has any influence, then it should be by sacking all NHS managers who earn over 100k per annum because they’re not in operating theatres helping the sick and poorly. They are just managers (pen pushers), and their share of the money that they earn should be going towards the sick and poorly. It’s about public health, not monetary reward. You either do the job because you have made it your vocation to help sick people, otherwise don’t do it at all!
There is no vocation in what people do now. Especially doctors and nurses and the managerial staff that run these hospitals. They should bow their heads in shame because they’re dealing with human lives, and some of them need to engage their brains because one day this could be your child, your husband, your sibling, or even your mother who needs attention from these wannabe doctors and nurses, they wannabe doctors and nurses, but they also wannabe on the strike line as well.
Sir Keir Starmer will probably be no different to any other politician who has become Prime Minister. Of course, I challenge him to prove me wrong, I really do! Nothing more would please me, and if he does, I will be the first person to say ‘I was wrong!’ So, Sir Keir Starmer, I will be keeping my beady little eye on you, and I really do hope that you prove me wrong.
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