Alexander Smith is a senior reporter for NBC News Digital based in London.
LONDON — Barring an almighty upset, Keir Starmer will become British prime minister Friday, his Labour Party ousting the ruling Conservatives after 14 years. But for a man on the verge of ruling this key American ally, the world’s sixth-largest economy, there is little consensus about what kind of leader Starmer, 61, will become or even what kind of man he is.
” Many of his former allies were outraged when, in 2008, he was appointed head of the Crown Prosecution Service, Britain’s government prosecutor, in their eyes becoming an instrument of the very state power they had spent their professional lives fighting. From there he became an MP in 2015. 'We want to be a party of power' It was a chaotic party under Corbyn, who hailed from the unpolished far left and enraged many colleagues.
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