Keir Starmer Quotes
Surveillance legislation fit for the 21st century, which strikes the right balance between privacy, security and democracy is a prize worth fighting for, and Labour will work constructively with the government to achieve it.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
I'm absolutely fine with the rough and tumble of politics.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
I spent five years prosecuting some of the most dangerous terrorists in this country, so it would be quite difficult for people to pin the charge of being soft on terrorism on me.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
The E.U. has data systems that enable police and border guards to work together in real time to intercept wanted persons; and the European arrest warrant ensures their speedy return.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
Theresa May's decision to call an unnecessary general election after Article 50 was triggered was deeply irresponsible.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
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
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
Human rights only have meaning if they are universal.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
It will be increasingly difficult to keep Scotland as a part of the U.K. I hope that doesn't happen, but everyone knows David Cameron has put that at risk.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
I believe Britain's response to Brexit must be based on core progressive values: internationalism, cooperation, social justice and the rule of law.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
When I was the director of public prosecutions between 2008 and 2013, I had staff working at the Eurojust HQ in The Hague 24/7.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
If you find yourself in a position you would rather was not there, you have to make it work.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
Brexit is so important, it would have been neglect of duty to simply sit it out.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
The government must be open enough to provide robust impact assessments of leaving the single market or the customs union, including region-by-region and sector-by-sector analysis.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
From my experience both as DPP and previously as a human rights lawyer, I know that human rights and effective protection from terrorism are not incompatible. On the contrary, they go hand in hand.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
The key to understanding the impact of the Human Rights Act in the U.K. is to appreciate that civil liberties and human rights are not two sides of the same coin.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
The pursuit of an extreme Brexit cannot come at the cost of peace in Northern Ireland.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
Britain needs a good Brexit deal to safeguard jobs, security and trade and to build a new partnership with the E.U. Achieving this will be fiendishly difficult.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
Significant cuts to funding for the police, for the Crown Prosecution Service, for probation etc, have put the long-term viability of our criminal justice system in doubt.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
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
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom
We have to make the argument that the only economically sound place to be is within Europe - we have to remember, it's history again, that there are reasons we bound ourselves together as a set of European nations and it all came out of the second world war.
Keir Starmer
Leader of the Labour Party of the United Kingdom