Attorney General Richard Hermer got some flack at PMQs today, with Kemi stating “it’s not clear” that he “believes in this country and everything we stand for”. Earlier this week, Guido exposed Hermer’s long-standing dim view of the special relationship between the UK and the US. In a 2020 podcast for Hermer’s Matrix Chambers the lawyer dismissed the relationship entirely, claiming there hadn’t been one since Yalta and predicting it would be gone anyway by the time Labour took power. No wonder he isn’t fussed about the Chagos sellout upsetting allies across the pond…
Guido reached out to the Attorney General’s office to see if Hermer still stands by those remarks. His office now insists the UK and US share a “historic and special relationship” and that America remains an “indispensable ally.” Back on the party line…
It’s no comment on his past statements and an insistence that his role is to provide impartial legal advice. Co-conspirators may not buy that line given some of his more curious clients in the past…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”