Wasn't Keir Starmer gorgeous?!

[SoberCurious]

Well what do you reckon?

I think he's v attractive

Wow i was expecting to be like 'what, no way!' but the picture proved me wrong!

Intelligence is always sexy IMO.

Unless you're a member of the current Cabinet.

Banana Man

I wouldn’t kick him out of bed for eating toast anyway! Mind you, when you compare what’s on the other side of the dispatch box it’s really no contest is it?

He's growing on me. Not like a wart.

On the private school thing the question is what happened to the existing pupils when it changed. Did they get a note saying “we’re private now, cough up or don’t come back in September”? Or were they allowed to stay on for free while the fee paying pupils filtered in from year 7? The latter seems more likely but I’ve never seen a specific answer.

The Oxford thing is simply ridiculous. Are you not qualified to lead a left wing party because you went to university (with a grant and no tuition fees)? Because you went on to postgraduate study? If you excel in your first degree are you meant to turn down an postgraduate offer from any university which has got more than its fair share of posh boys?

Nice to have someone educated to a high standard leading the Labour party at last!

He's nice, yes op. His name is quite unusual - who knows another 'Keir' and if so, what do they do and are they gorgeous?

Keir Starmer is named after Keir Hardie found of the Labour Party I think

I always thought him very attractive from his Director of Public Prosecutions days. I love the name Keir but don’t think I was aware of it before I saw him. It’s just the right side of unusual. Not quite as attractive now but how many of us completely keep out looks as we get older. Knowing he’s intelligent, has a social conscience and is probably the best thing to happen to Labour since John Smith is attractive in itself.

He looks like a teenager!

I much prefer him now.

Oh I have total crush on him! So clever and a silver fox! He would make a wonderful pm!

@AnyFucker, steady on !

Not my cup of tea but I see him as an ageing 80s pop star...a bit ‘Tony Hadley’

iDefinitelyHaveFriends
Regarding was Keir Starmer state or privately educated?
I'm about his age and went to a Direct Grant school in the early 70s - that is, a private secondary school with direct state funding for 2/3 of its pupils who passed it's (tough) entrance exams. Those pupils were given a free place for their 7 years of secondary schooling. Keir will have had one of these places.

The Direct Grant funds ended around 1974, and these private schools returned to fully fee paying, but the Direct Grant pupils didn't pay fees.

Hope this clears up the free state school place vs fee paying private school place discussion.

It would seem unfair to kick kids out who had spent several academic years there after passing the 11 plus. Not many of us could suddenly afford the equivalent of £20,000 per annum.

Apologies: Direct Grant funding ended in 1976, not 1974. Withdrawn by a Labour govt in 1974. Schools receiving it could either become state funded comprehensives or independents; most became independent, fee paying private schools.

BGD2012 my parents definitely couldn't have paid fees for my school after it became private! Same went for several girls in my year. Fortunately they didn't have to as we retained our fully funded Direct Grant free places.

so, we've pretty comprehensively demolished Fizzy's claim that he's a posh boy then

@AnyFucker

I'd ride him like Seabiscuit

Hi Keir 👋

Jesus. Imagine if a man said that about a female MP

You don't do irony, do you ?

My dad went to Oxford and he grew up sharing a three-bedroom Glasgow tenement with four siblings, mum, dad, auntie and uncle and granny and granddad. Those were the days when bright kids with no money had a hope of a good education and career.

Sorry, that's slightly beside the main point I suppose.