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Keir Starmer who worked with Theresa May as DPP said '“Whether you agree with her or you don’t, this was a woman broken who had tried to genuinely deliver on what she thought she had to do … I can’t pretend I didn’t feel something.”: #StarmerOut http://web.archive.org/web/20200928173154/https://amp.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/26/i-cant-pretend-i-didnt-feel-something-keir-starmer-on-mays-exit
Sir Keir Starmer was elected as an MP for Holborn and St Pancras in 2015. Before that he worked with May as director of public prosecutions when she was home secretary. #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks #Collusion #CONLAB
May was someone who was always straight with him, who always phoned him to ask whether she could use something he had said. “A lot of politicians didn’t do that. She never double dealt. She said what she would do and she did what she said.” #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks
At the end of his term as DPP in 2013, she invited Sir Starmer to dinner at an Italian restaurant in Westminster to say thank you.
“It was a difficult 90 minutes. Both of us were pleased to see the hour and a half was up.” #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks
“It was a difficult 90 minutes. Both of us were pleased to see the hour and a half was up.” #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks
''Keir Starmer credentials as a former director of public prosecutions (2008 to 2013) placed Starmer a cut above the rest of Labour's frontbench in the eyes of many Conservatives.''. He became acquainted with several senior Tories. https://www.politico.eu/article/labour-party-new-leader-keir-starmer-10-things-to-know/
When she resigned as PM, Starmer had some warm words for Theresa May, who had been home secretary from 2010 to 2016. Former Conservative Attorney General Dominic Grieve also rated Starmer highly. #StarmerOut
Keir Starmer proved himself a pliant tool of the coalition AND Tory governments during their reign of austerity. Demonstrations in 2010 against the trebling of tuition fees were met with a brutal police crackdown, Starmer implemented new guidelines to encourage their prosecution.
The real measure of Starmer’s politics is the fact that this youthful flirtation with the pseudo-left was no obstacle to his acceptance by the security services into British state, becoming Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in 2008. #StarmerOut https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2020/04/07/star-a07.html
Once appointed, this millionaire “Radical Lawyer” fitted seamlessly into the state apparatus and the defence of its crimes. #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks
Most infamously, in 2013 the CPS pressured Swedish prosecutors into maintaining a fraudulent investigation into WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, as a pretext for securing his arbitrary detention in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks
Under Keir Starmer’s leadership the CPS charged anti-austerity protesters for staging a sit-in at Fortnum & Mason in 2012; one academic accused Starmer of ''Criminalising peaceful assembly and protests.'' #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks https://libcom.org/history/keir-starmer-marxist-cop-expensive-suit
The head of the UK’s intelligence agency, MI5, is Jonathan Evans who was particularly grateful to Sir Starmer for his decision not to prosecute MI5 for their role in the CIA’s overseas torture programme. #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks
This ‘cop in an expensive suit’ is, at present, no threat to the Tory government. But, allied both with that government and with his friends in the police, he could easily become a very serious threat to those of us on the genuine left. #StarmerOut #LabourLeaks #SpyCopsBill
