Last week Guido warned co-conspirators about the incoming deluge of US-style class action law suits under a potential Prime Minister Starmer. The party’s New Deal for Working People opens the door to massive legal actions against job creators and entrepreneurs to the benefit of specialist law firms, over issues such as the ‘right to switch off’ and industrial relations. The cases are highly political, and are used as a political weapon by left-wing campaigners. The UK is highly likely to go the way of the US, where businesses of all kinds regularly face lefty class actions, being dragged into political warfare…

Under Starmer, legal matters will be the province of Emily Thornberry as Attorney General. Co-conspirators will remember her proximity to law firms such as Leigh Day, which pursued an ambulance chasing campaign against British soldiers. As The Times elaborated on Guido’s reporting, Thornberry accepted multiple donations from the firm:

“Ms Thornberry accepted the cash from Leigh Day, which is facing an official tribunal over its handling of claims against British soldiers — some of which have been described as “deliberate lies” by the UK’s legal watchdog. The firm has been referred to the solicitors disciplinary tribunal over allegations that it overlooked a crucial document related to the £31 million al-Sweady inquiry, which ultimately found that torture claims against British soldiers were “completely baseless”.”

Now legal sources are nervous about the risks of Thornberry’s tenure as the government’s chief law officer. “Her sympathy to class actions is well known”, says one senior government legal source. Another raises the prospect of a “lawfare explosion” under Thornberry, highlighting her form with Leigh Day. British employers are largely yet to register the threat, given the one way traffic in the media on Labour and the Conservative short memory around Starmer’s incoming Cabinet. Guido co-conspirators have been warned…