 The couple's son and daughter are being brought up in the Jewish faith of their mother and the family attend shabbat dinners.Starmer is a keen footballer, having played for Homerton Academicals, a north London amateur team, and supports Premier League side Arsenal.His late parents were very fond of donkeys, running a small sanctuary for threatened animals in a seven-acre field, which he bought for them in 1996, behind their home near Oxted.