Overview
- Keir Starmer gives his first extended on-record account of his brother Nick’s illness on Pete Wicks’ Man Made podcast released on November 21, 2025.
- He says he insisted on being present when doctors delivered the terminal cancer diagnosis to his brother, who had learning disabilities and limited means.
- Starmer recounts weeks of private visits to intensive care in Leeds, describing how hospital staff escorted him through back routes so his presence went unnoticed.
- He describes grieving as prime minister as “intensely difficult,” saying Nick’s death on Boxing Day 2024 “hit me like a bus.”
- He links the conversation to concerns about young men seeking harmful role models such as Andrew Tate and recalls fury over a 2022 homophobic attack on his niece as evidence of rising toxic division.