Sir Keir Starmer’s wife has said she felt “a bit sick” when pro-Palestinian protesters demonstrated outside their family home, a court has heard.
On April 9, a banner was hung outside the house that read “Starmer stop the killing”, surrounded by red hand prints, while rows of children’s shoes were laid in front of the door by Youth Demand activists.
Giving evidence in the trial of three protesters at Westminster magistrates’ court, Lady Starmer said she had returned to her home by car when her son first spotted the protest.
“I didn’t want to stop and be obvious,” she told the court.
Asked how seeing the protest had made her feel, Lady Starmer said: “I felt a bit sick, to be perfectly honest. I felt apprehensive and uncomfortable.”