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He's derided as dull, but Keir Starmer becomes UK prime minister with a sensational victory
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FILE - Leader of the British Labour Party Keir Starmer gestures as he arrives to make his keynote speech at the annual party conference in Brighton, England, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 2021. - photo by AP Photo/Alastair Grant, File
LONDON (AP) — For someone often derided as dull, Keir Starmer has delivered a sensational election result. Starmer has led Britain's Labour Party to a landslide election victory, and on Friday will become prime minister — the first leader from the center-left party to win a U.K. national election since Tony Blair, who won three in a row starting in 1997. It's the latest reinvention for a man who went from human rights attorney to hard-nosed prosecutor and from young radical to middle-aged pragmatist.