Keir Starmer, the leader of the Labour Party, was in his twenties when Channel 4 and SkyTV were launched in the UK. Various tweets point out that Starmer was around 26-27 years old when SkyTV started broadcasting, indicating that he did not have access to it while growing up. Former Sky TV Executive Chairman, Andrew Neil, highlighted that working-class families were among the first to adopt SkyTV.
I launched Sky TV in 1989, by which time Starmer was 27 — so obviously he didn’t have Sky growing up. Nobody his age did since it didn’t exist. Also, as the first Executive Chairman of Sky I can tell you with authority that working class families were the first to adopt it. https://t.co/M2mRLmvdUa
Keir Starmer has told the Sun that he certainly didn't have SkyTV growing up. No surprise since Starmer was 26 when SkyTV launched.
Starmer was 26 when SkyTV launched https://t.co/hkrjAheGJs
Starmer was 20 when Channel 4 was launched. https://t.co/bv2lG1QJyQ
Starmer would have been 21 when Satellite Television - later renamed Sky - started broadcasting in the UK https://t.co/0fm02OIB4D