Hermer Puts Starmer in Breach of Commitment Not to Brief Legal Advice
Lord Hermer’s control of government decision making has been highlighted by Guido since day one. Starmer’s best mate has just given an interview to the BBC saying international law should be at the heart of British foreign and defence policy…
Sources in multiple government departments are starting to pull their hair out over Hermer’s ability to block almost anything the government tries to do on the basis of maximalist legal advice. Hermer advised that any UK participation in bombing Iran would be illegal, leading to the farcical position taken by Starmer and Lammy, who can’t say whether they support US strikes…
Hermer’s anti-war position over the Iran crisis curiously found its way to the media – despite the longstanding convention that legal advice to ministers is never published. Usually the government’s legal position on military action isn’t known until well after the event. Inside government fingers are pointing at his office for briefing it as a way to control policy…
That would be against Starmer’s own thoughts on how legal advice should be treated. Sir Keir said back in 2018; “what cannot be allowed to happen is that the [AG’s legal] advice, or bits of it, are shown to some Members of Parliament outside Government and not others, in order to persuade them… In other words, once the disclosure goes beyond the Government, or in this case the Cabinet—if it does; I am not suggesting that it has at this stage—it must then be made available to everybody.”
It’s not rule of law but rule of lawyers…
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