The face is familiar, though with fewer lines and before the onset of grey. This is Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer a decade ago, before he got his knighthood and entered politics. He was a lawyer then but also, we discover, a heartthrob. This photo was buried in the depths of Your Barrister Boyfriend, a now defunct online blog that once documented the hottest barristers in London. It is widely credited with bringing Amal Alamuddin to the attention of George Clooney, whom she later married.
The listing for Starmer described his “brawny bod” and “manly hands”, also drawing attention to his “wide and worried eyes”. “He looks like the headmaster of an exam factory private school who’s about to tell two parents that he is ‘disappointed’ by their son’s behaviour”, the blog reads, but “despite all this, we suspect that Keir is brimming with manly passion.”
