Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer poses with Sunday football team
Keir ‘bit of a lad’ Starmer poses with his Sunday league football team and insists he loves the ‘banter’ during games as ‘nobody gives a stuff’ he’s Labour leader – while he boasts about ‘getting a detention for fighting’ at school
- Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer speaks of his ‘football, football, football’ passion
- The 60-year-old was photographed playing for 90 minutes in London yesterday
- He says there’s ‘a lot of banter’ during games and ‘no one gives a stuff’ he’s MP
- Sir Keir also reveals he was a ‘bit of a lad’ at school and got detention for fighting
Sir Keir Starmer spoke of his ‘football, football, football’ passion today after he was pictured enjoying his regular Sunday game.
The Labour leader, 60, admitted he revels in the ‘banter’ during matches and how ‘nobody gives a stuff’ that he’s a top politician.
His 90-minute game in London yesterday took place as the Tories spent the weekend jostling between themselves to elect a new leader to replace Liz Truss.
Sir Keir was photgraphed wearing his favourite Donegal GAA top he bought while on honeymoon in Ireland with his wife Victoria in 2007.
He also wore Lonsdale shorts, blue socks and Adidas boots – as well as strapping on his right knee.
Speaking on LBC Radio this morning, Sir Keir said he was in a ‘high mood’ after his team won yesterday.
He also admitted he was a ‘bit of a lad’ during his school days and revealed he once got a detention for fighting.
Sir Keir Starmer spoke of his ‘football, football, football’ passion today after he was pictured enjoying his regular Sunday game
The Labour leader, 60, admitted he revels in the ‘banter’ during matches and how ‘nobody gives a stuff’ that he’s a top politician.
Sir Keir was photgraphed wearing his favourite Donegal GAA top he bought while on honeymoon in Ireland with his wife Victoria in 2007
The Labour leader also wore Lonsdale shorts, blue socks and Adidas boots – as well as strapping on his right knee
Sir Keir attended Reigate Grammar School at the same time as Norman Cook, the DJ known as ‘Fatboy Slim’, and Lord Cooper, who worked in Downing Street under David Cameron.
The Labour leader was pressed on claims by Lord Cooper that he was a ‘bit of a lad’ and a ‘livewire’ while at school.
‘He’s not completely wrong about that,’ Sir Keir replied, as he revealed he once got a detention for fighting.
He admitted he couldn’t remember who he had fought, but said scraps were ‘always around the back of the sheds’.
‘There were bits and bobs going on,’ Sir Keir added, while he described how ‘football, football, football’ was his passion while at school.
‘It has always been and I still play, I played yesterday for 90 minutes,’ he continued.
‘We won, it’s a high mood on a Sunday afternoon if I’ve won at the football.
‘But what I love about that is it’s a group of players I’ve known for a long, long time. Nobody gives a stuff what you do for a living.
‘There’s a lot of banter, as you can imagine – a lot of comments.’
Speaking on LBC Radio this morning, Sir Keir said he was in a ‘high mood’ after his team won yesterday
The Labour leader, pictured on a trip to the Berlin Wall in July, admitted he was a ‘bit of a lad’ during his school days and revealed he once got a detention for fighting
Sir Keir joked around with former England defender Gary Neville during last month’s Labour conference in Liverpool
Sir Keir, who lives in north London, is a keen Arsenal fan and has also attended England matches at Wembley.
But he told LBC he would not be attending next month’s World Cup in Qatar.
Asked if he would go to the final in the Gulf state if England got there, Sir Keir said: ‘No, I wouldn’t. I’d love to, but I think that the human rights record is such that I wouldn’t go, and that would be the position of the Labour Party.’
Pressed on whether he would attend any of the games, he said: No.’
He said the case would be the same for his senior colleagues.
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