Who is Keir Starmer’s wife Victoria? As her neighbour I know this…

WWith just days to go until the election, local candidates’ leaflets are landing through letterboxes across the country. And where I live in Kentish Town, it’s no different. Except perhaps that our local MP Sir Keir Starmer could be the country’s next Prime Minister and I can see his house from mine.

It’s been quite lively here recently; with a noisy week-long protest outside the station over the Gaza conflict and piles of children’s shoes left outside the Labour leader’s house (to remind him of the thousands who have been killed). I regularly see his security cavalcade if I’m up early, which Sir Keir takes out to start the campaign.

But what surprised me most when I saw the Labour leaflet was the picture of Sir Keir with his wife, Lady Starmer. Or Vic, as she is better known to the Kentish Town mother mafia (who call her “cool”, “a laugh”, “down to earth” and “one of us”).