He was named after Keir Hardie but has the former Director of Public Prosecutions got his eye on a safe Labour seat? Since his return to Doughty Street Chambers after five years as DPP, Keir Starmer QC has made regular public appearances in the Holborn & St Pancras part of Camden, where Frank Dobson is rumoured to be retiring as MP.
This week Starmer came out as an opponent of the HS2 rail link, which will greatly endear him to the burghers of the Euston area and Regent’s Park. Last month he attended the re-opening of Salaam Namaste Indian restaurant, a favourite Labour haunt in Bloomsbury.
“After the 2010 poll, when it was clear no one had won an outright majority, there was talk for a day or two that there may be a rainbow coalition made up of Labour, the Lib-Dems and a handful of other MPs,” Starmer tells the Camden New Journal. “They did the figures and worked out they had a majority of two. However, I knew this would not work, as I had two files on my desk at the time of two Labour MPs who we were considering prosecuting ...”
