Keir Starmer Quotes

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Keir Starmer

Profession : Politician

Birth : September 2, 1962

For far too long, victims' rights have been discussed only in the context of sentencing. Sentencing is very important, but the debate obscures something much more fundamental: most victims have so little faith in our criminal justice system that they do not access it at all.

Keir Starmer

You don't win elections by telling people what you're against. We're very good at listing things we don't much like about what the Tories are doing. But you win elections by telling them what you're for, what you're going to change, what's going to be better.

Keir Starmer

Brexit can be stopped.

Keir Starmer

We cannot allow Brexit to be driven by narrow and divisive Tory ideology.

Keir Starmer

I was a human rights lawyer for 20 years, I believed those values of dignity, equality and non-discrimination were a given. believed the only question in my lifetime would be - how much further do we extend those values? I did not think in my lifetime we'd actually be having an argument about those values.

Keir Starmer

So if you want a really effective criminal justice strategy, you don't build bigger prisons, you invest money in young kids - and you accept that it's going to take years to work through, but it's a more effective strategy.

Keir Starmer

Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.

Keir Starmer

You can't meet Labour's tests by failing to provide answers.

Keir Starmer

We were right to make the case for the U.K. to negotiate a comprehensive customs union with the E.U. And we are right to argue for a strong single market deal, based on common standards, protections and regulations: the right balance of rights and obligation.

Keir Starmer

In a democracy there will always be a tension between security and privacy.

Keir Starmer

Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.

Keir Starmer

If the vote that is progressive is split then all that does is open up the path for the Brexit party and allow it to pretend it represents the majority view in this country.

Keir Starmer

Theresa May's decision to call an unnecessary general election after Article 50 was triggered was deeply irresponsible.

Keir Starmer

I think most people accept that it is necessary to have some surveillance in a democratic society. I think most people accept that it's important to have limits and clear safeguards on that.

Keir Starmer

I campaigned to stay in the E.U. I voted to stay in the E.U. and I was very disappointed by the outcome. And if there was another vote I would vote to remain in.

Keir Starmer

I have prosecuted very serious criminals who are now serving very long jail sentences.

Keir Starmer

I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.

Keir Starmer

Defining of the public interest is always very, very difficult.

Keir Starmer

In my view, airstrikes without an effective ground force are unlikely to make any meaningful contribution to defeating Isis.

Keir Starmer

It's really important we make the case that this is not the country of Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson. That intolerance and hatred and division is not representative of our country.

Keir Starmer