Keir Starmer, critic of military action in Iraq, set to lead UK opposition party
(WorldNews Europe)

As the British government edged towards committing troops to Iraq, a human rights lawyer joined a million people on the streets of London in 2003 in an effort to block the path to war. Keir Starmer, who had a growing reputation for taking on cases against states and corporations, backed up his protest with a measured legal opinion published in a national newspaper that the coming war would be illegal. His ultimately unsuccessful efforts to prevent British troops heading to the Middle East were nonetheless a key moment in the political rise of the former hard-left activist. Seventeen years after the protest - and only five after becoming an MP - he stands on the brink of putting his human...