Victoria, Lady Starmer is the spouse of the current prime minister of the United Kingdom Keir Starmer. She previously worked as a solicitor and currently works for the National Health Service (NHS) as an occupational health worker.
Starmer was born Victoria Alexander in either 1973 or 1974 in London. Along with an older sister, she was raised in Gospel Oak, London. Her father Bernard, an economics lecturer and an observant Jew, was born to a Polish-Jewish family that emigrated to the United Kingdom prior to World War II. Her mother Barbara (died 2020) was a community doctor in the NHS who converted to Judaism upon marriage.
Alexander was educated at Channing School in Highgate, London, and later graduated with degrees in law and sociology from Cardiff University, where she served as president of the student union. After graduating from university, Alexander qualified as a solicitor and worked for Hodge Jones & Allen, a law firm specialising in street crime. At some point after her marriage, she stopped practising law and began working as an occupational health worker for the NHS.
