A LAWYER who joined a professional organisation at the same time as Sir Keir Starmer lifted the lid today on the Labour leader’s lack of socialist commitment in an exclusive interview with the Morning Star.

Barrister and academic Bill Bowring became a member of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers in the late 1980s.

Professor Bowring said that, although the former director of public prosecutions did a “magnificent” job as a human rights lawyer and had written for publications such as Socialist Alternative, he believed that Sir Keir was “never much of a socialist” as he did not seem to be “oriented towards the class struggle.”