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…