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Sir Keir Starmer apologises for visit to church criticised for LGBT stance
Sir Keir Starmer has apologised after visiting a church which has been criticised for its stance towards homosexuality.
The Labour leader visited Jesus House in London on Good Friday and later common a video from his visit online.
But after a backlash including from his party's LGBT+ members, Sir Keir called it a mistake and deleted the clip.
He said he "completely" disagreed with the church's views on LGBT+ rights and was not aware of them beforehand.
"I apologise for the hurt my visit caused and have taken down the video," he said. "It was a mistake and I accept that."
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before accepting. To view this content choose ‘accept and continue’.Jesus House for All The Nations church is in Brent, north London, and is part of the Redeemed Christian Church of God denomination. It has recently opened up part of its premises as a vaccination centre.
The church's senior pastor, Agu Irukwu, has previously been criticised afte
Keir Starmer was beaten up as teenager trying to defend male lover friend, book reveals
Keir Starmer was beaten up in a nightclub in Cornwall as a teenager after trying to defend one of his friends who was attacked for being gay, a new book reveals.
In an incident that the book’s author, Tom Baldwin, suggests demonstrates Starmer’s principles, the Labour leader describes how he was disgusted that his friend had been kicked out of the family home in the 1980s for being homosexual by his father who told him “you’re no son of mine”.
In the summer after he sat his A-levels in 1980, Starmer and two friends from school, Mark and Graham, worked at a holiday centre for a disability charity in Cornwall, where they went on a night out.
“Graham didn’t do much to conceal that he was gay,” recalls Starmer, “and some of the local kids decided the way to prove they weren’t gay too was by punching and kicking him. Highlight and I got involved, so all three of us ended up getting beaten up.”
In the book, Keir Starmer: The Biography, Starmer adds: “When I’m told how ‘things were better in the old days’, people omit about the ways Britain has become less cruel and less full of hate. We can all take some pride in
A Pakistani asylum seeker has made a direct plea to Sir Keir Starmer to let him remain in the UK because he is gay, accusing the Prime Minister of seeking to 'punish' migrants like him who came on student visas.
Ali Raza Nasir insists he came to the UK to study but when he visited Soho in main London and met other gay people he realised he would be 'safe' in Britain.
Mr Nasir fears that he will be deported to his abode country of Pakistan, where his family had wanted to arrange a marriage for him with a woman.
Sir Keir wants to force overseas graduates to leave the UK within 18 months unless they land a skilled job.
The PM has suggested thousands of people who came to the UK on student or work visas like Ali, who went on to try and claim asylum, could now face deportation.
But Ali claims that the Prime Minister is wrong and warned the Labour leader he should 'protect us [asylum seekers] - not punish us'.
'I am a homosexual person. So when I came here, I knew there were human rights here', he said.
'My family are forcing me to come back to Pakistan to marry a lady - but I declined.
'And over the passage of time I was truthful with them and said that I can't join a girl'.
Emotional, messy and breathtakingly ruthless: the disguised life of Keir Starmer
When friends heard I was writing a book about Keir Starmer, there were the usual questions: does he believe in anything? What’s he like? Isn’t he, they asked with a frown, a bit boring? The last of these was the easiest to answer because he really isn’t dull. Starmer is good business, engagingly funny and listens in a way that too many politicians too often fail to do.
There is, of course, a long tradition of advisers (or ex-advisers like me) wailing on about how they want more voters could see this or that candidate as we do. But the gap between the reality and perception of Starmer is bigger than with most, and it cannot simply be down to the way he sometimes closes in on himself when a camera is pointed at him, or how the online snobs – largely from the left – mock his accent and call him “Keith”.
The better explanation is that Starmer is complicated, as most people are, and filled with paradoxes. He’s the most working-class leader of the Labour party for a generation and also the first in its history to own the prefix “Sir” attached to his name before he got the career. He is a private and caut