"They blew up for me an incredibly detailed photograph of a lung with very dark marks on it which were all the air pollution from our roads which were causing cancer in that and many other patients. It's worth us all just asking ourselves...if we are not prepared to do these sort of schemes what are we going to do. If increasing numbers of people, and young people as well, are getting cancer...I have to say..intake of breath when I saw the phot[o]graph, they said there are the dark areas that are lung cancer because of it (air pollution). We can’t just sit that out."
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On a visit to the Crick Institute in an interview on LBC, as cited in "Keir Starmer: Ulez expansion needed to curb lung cancer", Evening Standard (15 May 2023).
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Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC (/ˈkɪər ˈstɑːrmər/; born 2 September 1962) is a British Labour Party politician who is Prime Minister of the United Kingdom since the 2024 general election. A former barrister, he was elected as Leader of the Labour Party in April 2020, becoming Leader of the Opposition. Previously, he was the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the Head of the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
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