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Within the first few months of his tenure, Starmer upheld the decision not to prosecute the police officers who had killed Jean Charles de Menezes in a UK High Court appeal lodged by the family. [26] The family then gave up on pursuing charges and nobody has been charged with the death of de Menezes. [27] Later in 2009, when the Conservative Party proposed repealing the Human Rights Act 1998, Starmer defended it as a "clear and basic statement of our citizens' human rights". [28] Liberty and the Liberal Democrats supported Starmer, while the Conservative MP David T. C. Davies suggested he should be dismissed. [29] In the same year, he called for the CPS to modernise by being more open to scrutiny and less reliant on paper files. [30] In 2011, he introduced reforms that included the "first test paperless hearing". [31] A Report on the Policing of the Ardoyne Parades 12 July 2004 (2004), with Jane Gordon, Belfast: Northern Ireland Policing Board. Starmer is a former member of the Trilateral Commission, a nongovernmental international organisation aimed at fostering closer cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America. [198]MI5 and MI6 cleared over torture allegations but CPS launches new illegal rendition inquiry". The Telegraph. 12 January 2012. Archived from the original on 2 July 2020.

Starmer's politics have been described as unclear and "hard to define". [122] [123] [124] When he was elected as Labour leader, Starmer was widely believed to belong to the soft left of the Labour Party. [125] However, he has since moved to the political centre-ground. [126] By the September 2023 shadow cabinet reshuffle, most analysts concluded that Starmer had moved to the right of the party, but with elements of the 'soft left' remaining in the shadow cabinet. [127] [128] [129] Hirsch, Afua (10 February 2011). "Rape guidelines may prevent unfair prosecutions of those who retract claim". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 3 July 2020 . Retrieved 2 July 2020. Starmer has repeatedly emphasised the reform of public institutions (against a so-called ' tax and spend' approach), localism, and devolution. He has pledged to abolish the House of Lords, which he has described as "indefensible", during the first term of a Labour government and to replace it with a directly-elected 'Assembly of the Regions and Nations', but the details of which will be subject to public consultation. He criticised the Conservative Party for handing peerages to "cronies and donors". [138] Upon becoming leader of the Labour Party, he tasked former Labour Prime Minister Gordon Brown with recommending constitutional reforms to British democracy. [139] The report was published in 2022 and was endorsed and promoted by Starmer, and recommended the abolition of the House of Lords, greater powers given to local councils and mayors, and deeper devolution to the nations of the United Kingdom. [140]Since the end of 2021, Labour have maintained a poll lead over the Conservatives, including the highest poll lead of any party in over 20 years amid the government crisis during the Premiership of Liz Truss. [118] [119] During the 2023 local elections, the Labour Party gained more than 500 councillors and 22 councils, becoming the largest party in local government for the first time since 2002. [120] Labour's Sir Keir Starmer says EU free movement rules 'have got to be changed' ". The Independent. 1 January 2017. Archived from the original on 5 June 2020 . Retrieved 13 January 2020. There are various ways to mark the day, especially by hearing stories from Holocaust survivors for educational purposes. Sir Keir Starmer criticised over tax free pension scheme". BBC News. 22 March 2023 . Retrieved 23 March 2023.