All through the overall election marketing campaign and far of her husband’s tenure as Labour chief, Victoria Starmer has stored a low profile.

Other than appearances at Labour conferences, the odd state banquet and a Taylor Swift live performance, Woman Starmer, nee Victoria Alexander, has sought to keep away from public appearances

Requested on LBC about his spouse’s low profile, Sir Keir identified that she had a full-time job at an NHS hospital and that their eldest little one was doing his GCSEs.

“We took the choice that while I used to be out and about on the street, we needed to create the surroundings the place he may research calmly in atypical circumstances.”

Nevertheless, now that Sir Keir has gained the election and grow to be prime minister, Woman Starmer might discover it trickier to shun the highlight.

When she first met Sir Keir within the early 2000s, he wasn’t a politician however a barrister. She was a solicitor engaged on the identical case.

Sir Keir informed ITV’s Piers Morgan’s Life Tales, of their first assembly: “I used to be doing a case in court docket and all of it trusted whether or not the paperwork have been correct.

“I [asked the team] who really drew up these paperwork, they stated a girl known as Victoria, so I stated ‘let’s get her on the road.'”

He grilled her forensically on the paper however as he hung up he heard one remark from her.

“She stated, ‘who the bleep does he suppose he’s’, then put the telephone down on me,” Sir Keir stated. “And fairly proper too.”

Regardless of the rocky beginnings, the connection blossomed after a primary date within the Lord Stanley pub in Camden, north London.

Talking to his biographer Tom Baldwin, Sir Keir described her as “grounded, sassy, humorous, streetwise – and totally attractive too”.

He proposed only a few months afterward a vacation in Greece.

“Will not we want a hoop, Keir?” was her down-to-earth response.

They have been married in 2007 on the Fennes property in Essex, strolling down the aisle to considered one of Sir Keir’s favorite items of music – Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No.5, 2nd motion.

He later described her to Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs as an “extremely heat, great girl. My full rock”.

The couple have two teenage youngsters – however have been at pains to maintain them out of the limelight – making some extent of not naming them in public.

Woman Starmer grew up in north London, not removed from the place she presently lives together with her household.

She attended Channing College earlier than finding out regulation and sociology at Cardiff College.

Whereas there, she acquired concerned in scholar politics, changing into president of the scholar union in 1994.

In an interview with the scholar newspaper Gair Rhydd, she stated her predominant precedence was to marketing campaign in opposition to cuts to scholar grants.

Rob Watkins was at Cardiff College on the identical time and labored as a photographer for the paper.

He remembers the longer term Woman Starmer as being “witty {and professional}, clearly devoted to her work” and conscious of her accountability to the individuals she represented.

Woman Starmer presently works in occupational well being for the NHS – one thing her husband has incessantly referred to throughout his time as Labour chief.

He says it offers him perception into the issues confronted by the well being service.

Talking to the Instances in Might, Sir Keir stated his spouse meant to maintain her job if he gained the election.

“She’s completely going to hold on working, she desires to and she or he loves it.”

Whereas the couple say they need to preserve life as regular as potential for his or her youngsters, their home life has already been disrupted by Sir Keir’s job.

In April, pro-Palestinian demonstrators held a protest outdoors their dwelling, hanging a banner outdoors their home and laying youngsters’s footwear outdoors the entrance door.

Woman Starmer had returned from a procuring journey together with her son when she noticed the protesters.

Requested how the protest made her really feel, Woman Starmer stated: “I felt a bit sick, to be completely trustworthy.”