Victoria Starmer, whose husband Keir is the UK’s new prime minister, works in the public health service, is rarely photographed and has kept a low profile during the election campaign.
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But over the next few days many Britons will begin to recognise the face of the elegant 50-year-old brunette who has been married to the Labour prime minister for more than 15 years.
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Since Keir Starmer became Labour leader in 2020, and throughout the election campaign, Victoria Starmer has not given interviews and has largely stayed out of politics.
She makes very rare public appearances, such as at a polling station on election day, in the audience at the Wimbledon tennis tournament or at Taylor Swift’s London concerts, or at state dinners and receptions at Buckingham Palace.
A rare exception came at the Labour Party’s annual conference in 2023, when she walked onto the stage with her husband wearing a red dress, Labour’s colours.
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The former lawyer plans to continue working as an occupational health worker for the NHS when he moves to Downing Street.
Victoria Alexander grew up in North London: her father was a Polish-Jewish former accountant and her mother was a local doctor.
She studied law at Cardiff University in Wales, where she served as President of the Students’ Union.
She also volunteered at the Labour Party’s election headquarters under Tony Blair before becoming a lawyer at a law firm.
She then joined the NHS.
The new prime minister has often spoken about the time they first met in the early 2000s, when both were working on legal cases.
He called her and asked if all the documents she had prepared were accurate.
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Soon afterwards, he asked her out to a pub in Camden, north London.
The couple married in 2007 and have two children, a 16-year-old son and a 13-year-old daughter, but Starmer never mentions their names in public to protect their privacy.
They live in Kentish Town, a north London constituency.
The prime minister says he is not religious, but his wife has passed on Jewish traditions to their children, including going to synagogue and having Friday night dinners.
Keir Starmer, who regularly compliments his wife by calling her “Vic”, told Vogue magazine that she is “very sassy and very unassuming”.
In a separate interview, he said his current job allows him to “see first-hand the challenges of the NHS and staff morale on a daily basis”.
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A family friend once said Victoria was her husband’s assistant and “literally the yin to his yang.”
Despite being viewed by many Labour advisers as an asset to her husband, she has kept a safe distance from the media during the election campaign.
Keir Starmer insisted he wanted to focus on his son, who is sitting his final exams this year.
But she was unable to stop the media from covering her testimony in court last month in the case of three pro-Palestinian activists on trial for protesting outside her home against Labor’s stance on Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip.
“To be honest, I felt a little sick, anxious and uncomfortable,” she said.
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The Labour leader told Downing Street that Starmer and his wife would “intensely shield” their children from media attention in future.
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