Keir Starmer

Keir Starmer appears in roughly 3 monitored articles per day as of August 20, 2026. Mentions are down 11.9% week-over-week. The tone of that coverage averages -1.61 — mildly negative.

Sir Keir Rodney Starmer is a British politician and former lawyer who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 2024 to 2026. He served as Leader of the Labour Party from 2020 to 2026 and as Leader of the Opposition from 2020 to 2024. He has been Member of Parliament (MP) for Holborn and St Pancras since 2015. Before entering politics he was a barrister and served as Director of Public Prosecutions from 2008 to 2013.

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Data updated: · refreshed every 2 hours from GDELT

Articles / day
3
mentioning this entity
Week over week
-11.9%
7-day mean vs prior
Tone
-1.61
mildly negative

Coverage volume, last 90 days

Keir Starmer mentions per day: 91 days, latest 3.00 on 2026-08-200.0025005000May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Coverage tone, last 90 days

Keir Starmer coverage tone: 91 days, latest tone -1.61 on 2026-08-20+100-10May 22Jun 7Jun 23Jul 9Jul 25Aug 10Aug 20

Reader interest (Wikipedia)

Daily Wikipedia pageviews for Keir Starmer: 89 days, latest 4761.00 on 2026-08-180.005000001000000May 22Jun 6Jun 21Jul 6Jul 21Aug 5Aug 18

Daily human pageviews of the entity's English Wikipedia article (Wikimedia Analytics). Coverage above measures what the press SUPPLIES; this measures what readers DEMAND — divergence between the two is its own signal.

Mentions counted via a quoted-name query against the GDELT DOC API, aggregated to UTC days — see methodology. Derived data is CC BY 4.0 (“Geotone / GDELT”).