Starmer is a Fabian. He is textbook, self identified left and socialist. He is pretty much a poster child for leftism.
My best theory is that he's chum with one of UK's many spy lords - that is, upper class twats with a sinecure in the secret services - and that he's trying to destroy Labour for them (and the good of the country of course). He only failed last election because the conservative party was even more self-destructive.