Starmer donates biography of himself to Downing Street library

Sir Keir Starmer has donated his own biography to the Downing Street library, adding to a collection established in 1931 by Prime Minister Ramsay MacDonald. The book, titled Keir Starmer: The Biography, was written by journalist and former Labour adviser Tom Baldwin and is now among more than 400 volumes kept in the Cabinet Room. The library tradition invites prime ministers and ministers to contribute books, and several of the ministers who served in Starmer’s government have added their own selections. Donations listed in the article include titles by Rachel Reeves, Darren Jones, Lisa Nandy, Nick Thomas-Symonds, Bridget Phillipson, Jo Stevens and James Murray. The piece also notes Starmer’s limited reputation as a reader, contrasting him with successor Andy Burnham’s reported interest in poetry.