It has escaped most reporting around the appointment of Richard Hermer as Attorney General that he was a significant donor to Starmer’s leadership campaign. Records show the prominent KC – and legal beagle buddy of Sir Keir – donated £5,000 to Starmer’s leadership drive in December 2019. He made the donation apparently just a month after he was appointed as a Deputy High Court Judge. Money talks…
Hemer’s record on Palestine is causing real anxiety. If the Tories had made a leadership donor a Cabinet Minister overnight – and given them a peerage – there would be outrage – Angela Rayner would be writing to the Independent Advisor on Ministers’ Interests…
Paula Barker, Liverpool Wavertree MP backing Andy Burnham, told Times Radio there wouldn’t be trouble from the markets under Burnham:
“The markets will have to fall in line.”