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Rebecca Speare-Cole (19 December 2019). "Sir Keir Starmer at centre of Wikipedia 'millionaire' row ahead of expected Labour leadership bid". Evening Standard. Retrieved 19 December 2019. But Sir Keir - who this week insisted he came from working class roots - has already found himself at the centre of controversy after a reference to him being a "millionaire" was added and removed several times from his page.
Alex Matthews (19 December 2019). "WIKISNEAKS Sir Keir Starmer's Wikipedia page edited to remove reference to being a 'millionaire' ahead of Labour leadership bid". The Sun (United Kingdom). Retrieved 19 December 2019. SIR Keir Starmer's Wikipedia page has been edited to remove a reference to him being a "millionaire" ahead of his bid to be Labour leader. The text was taken off the site early on Tuesday morning and was reportedly tracked back to an internet address in North London.
Carly Read (19 December 2019). "Who doesn't want to be a millionaire? Labour leadership contender Keir Starmer in Wikipedia WAR over how rich he is: Claim is added then removed three times in two days". Daily Mail. Retrieved 22 December 2019. Sir Keir Starmer is at the centre of a 'Wikipedia-war' today as the word 'millionaire' was repeatedly removed from his official page.
Alex Matthews (20 December 2019). "Labour's Keir Starmer embroiled in row after 'millionaire' reference on Wikipedia removed". Daily Express. Retrieved 22 December 2019. But he has already found himself embroiled in a scandal after a reference to him being a millionaire was added and removed from his Wikipedia page several times.

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Edit Request - Kate Osamor suspension[edit]

The edit to add "or for describing its conduct as genocide" to the reason for suspensions in relation to Kate Osamor as "she was never accused of antisemitism" (https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keir_Starmer&diff=prev&oldid=1216861453) should be changed, as it misses the context that groups had considered it offensive that the remarks were made as part of a Holocaust Memorial Day message.

Otherwise the sentence as a whole "The Labour Party under Starmer suspended several parliamentary candidates and MPs, including Graham Jones, Andy McDonald, Azhar Ali and Kate Osamor, for allegedly making anti-Semitic comments about Israel during the Israel-Hamas war, or for describing its conduct as genocide" reads disingenuously and misses important context. It additionally makes it appear that all of the suspensions could be the result of simply describing Israel's conduct as genocide. SoThisIsPeter (talk) 23:52, 29 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Photo outdated[edit]

How is a photo form 2017 being used here? Isn't a new one available? Looks very dated. 92.59.166.156 (talk) 17:15, 22 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There will be a new one in 42 days! --150.143.27.147 (talk) 23:31, 23 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Views - Israel Palestine[edit]

There is a glaring omissions in this article that Starmer supported the right of Israel to cut off water and food to Gaza as a response to Oct 7.

It is common knowledge, and has been repeatedly mentioned since the Nick Ferrari interview in credible media outlets.

Original instance - https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/sir-keir-starmer-hamas-terrorism-israel-defend-itself/#:~:text=He%20also%20said%20%E2%80%9CIsrael%20has,from%20Hamas%2C%E2%80%9D%20he%20added

Clearly this should be reflected given how pertinent it is within the context of current events and his foreign policy views. Aak1307 (talk) 09:19, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is practically a whole paragraph about this already? Michaeldble (talk) 11:59, 25 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

There is a paragraph about the general theme, but not about the fact he said Israel had the right to cut off food and water, or other specific and actually quite unique positions / situations applicable to Starmer, which are pertinent to his leadership of the Labour party and his views on this issue.

It seems, in part, and edit that you made to clean up some duplications actually also remove quite a lot of important information about his views on the issue. This would include the above stated view, his membership of the LFI group and the fact that he has personally received large sums of money Pro-Israel groups. The current views section, intended or otherwise, minimise just how pro Israel he has actually shown himself to be by removing these items. Aak1307 (talk) 08:33, 26 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]