Well, it would seem so!!
Congratulations to Keir Starmer on being elected Labour Party leader this morning. I never knew Keir personally at Reigate Grammar School, where we would have been among the last 11-plus entrants; before this most curious of schools(!!) transitioned from being a voluntary aided state school into an independent fee-paying grammar school in 1976 (my first year and Keir’s second). And I have never been a signed up member of the Labour Party, and felt it would be disingenuous to do so just in order to vote. Nonetheless, Keir Starmer’s name is sufficiently unusual that I have been able to follow his extremely impressive career, marked by great integrity and a strong social conscience, prayerfully and hopefully that this might indeed be the next step in his (and our country’s) journey. Never before in my lifetime have I so understood the importance of a strong Opposition and Opposition Leader to the proper functioning of our democratic system. I have also always been curious about the sense of destiny around the name ‘Keir’, which was almost certainly (at least in part) in honour of Keir Hardie, a founder of the Labour Party and its first Parliamentary Leader from 1906 to 1908. And aware, too, of the early challenges Keir must have faced in family life with his mother having Still’s disease. For me, all of this represents a lot of hope at a time when hope is such a vital commodity. So my prayer for our nation at this time is that we might know afresh the confidence that comes from the God of hope filling us: ‘with all joy and peace as [we] trust in him, so that [we] may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit’ (Romans 15:13).
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