Victoria Starmer: Who is the new PM's wife?

Throughout the general election campaign and much of her husband's tenure as Labour leader, Victoria Starmer has kept a low profile.

Apart from appearances at Labour conferences, the odd state banquet and a Taylor Swift concert, Lady Starmer, nee Victoria Alexander, has sought to avoid public appearances

Asked on LBC about his wife's low profile, Sir Keir pointed out that she had a full-time job at an NHS hospital and that their eldest child was doing his GCSEs.

“We took the decision that whilst I was out and about on the road, we wanted to create the environment where he could study calmly in ordinary circumstances.”

However, now that Sir Keir has won the election and become prime minister, Lady Starmer may find it trickier to shun the spotlight.

When she first met Sir Keir in the early 2000s, he wasn't a politician but a barrister. She was a solicitor working on the same case.

Sir Keir told ITV's Piers Morgan's Life Stories, of their first meeting: "I was doing a case in court and it all depended on whether the documents were accurate.

"I [asked the team] who actually drew up these documents, they said a woman called Victoria, so I said 'let's get her on the line.'"

He grilled her forensically on the paper but as he hung up he heard one comment from her.

"She said, 'who the bleep does he think he is', then put the phone down on me," Sir Keir said. "And quite right too."

Despite the rocky beginnings, the relationship blossomed after a first date in the Lord Stanley pub in Camden, north London.

Speaking to his biographer Tom Baldwin, Sir Keir described her as "grounded, sassy, funny, streetwise - and utterly gorgeous too".

He proposed just a few months later on a holiday in Greece.

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