The UK is gearing up for a change of government as the Labour Party has swept the general elections in a historic win under the leadership of Sir Keir Rodney Starmer. But who is this figure who promises he has 'changed' the Labour party? The 61-year-old Starmer will be the oldest prime minister to be elected in over five decades. Born in Surrey to an NHS nurse mother and a toolmaker father, Starmer used his humble beginnings repeatedly in the media while going against millionaire PM Rishi Sunak.