The Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has blasted Lord Hermer who is the Attorney General as a “useful idiot for our enemies.”
Speaking at the Tory party conference Jenrick said that Lord Hermer “always chose a particular type of client” naming Shamima Begum who joined Islamic state aged 15.
The Telegraph reported that Jenrick said, “Since taking office, the advice we’re told Lord Hermer has given to Starmer and his cronies, like to give the Chagos Islands to an ally of China, and to pay billions of pounds for the privilege…
“In each and every one of these incidents, he’s wasted no time establishing himself as a useful idiot for our enemies, his rise symbolises the central truth of Keir Starmer’s government. Labour is just not on Britain’s side.”
He added, “Why on Earth would Britain’s Attorney General change the law to enable our country’s enemies to sue the very government that he represents?
“Well, it makes more sense when you realise that another of Lord Hermer’s old clients was, you guessed it, Gerry Adams. Not long ago, a man with his past would have had no place in mainstream politics.”
Lord Hermer said he once represented Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams and said that this happened as barristers take their clients under a “cab-rank principle.”
Jenrick then mentioned Judge Mary Symes had once volunteered for Bail for Immigration Detainees (BID).
He said, “Now even while a judge he takes public positions on social media on illegal migration proposal. He even publicly advertises his judicial office to drum up business for his immigration advisory services.”
Jenrick added, “I’ve uncovered dozens of judges with ties to open borders charities who take to social media to broadcast their open border views. Who’ve spent their careers fighting to keep illegal migrants in this country. Some even continue to do so while, astonishingly, serving as judges.
“It’s like finding out halfway through a football match that the referee is a season ticket holder for the other side. The public rightly ask, how independent are they? They dishonour generations of independent jurists who came before them and undermine the British people’s trust in the law itself.
“The Lord Chancellor will once again appoint the judges. No more quangos. And they will be instructed to never permit activists of any political hue to don the wig, ever again.”
David Lammy the Justice Secretary, said, “Robert Jenrick calls himself a patriot, but he tramples on the British values he claims to defend. He calls himself a Conservative, but he threatens to trash the institutions and traditions that hold our country together.
“The independence of judges from politicians is not optional. It is the cornerstone of British democracy. When politicians start deciding which judges can stay or go, that is democratic backsliding and Robert Jenrick knows it.”
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