Richard Hermer’s office refused to say last night whether the Attorney General has received payments from legal work conducted before the election after entering office. A common occurence for chambers which make use of Conditional Fee Arrangements…
In Parliament this month Hermer could not recall whether he had worked under those fee arrangements for previous clients – a list which includes Gerry Adams and human rights group Liberty in its defence of Shamima Begum. He has not declared any payments in the register of interests. Sources in his office “note” earnings for work conducted before entering don’t have to be registered because there is no “ongoing obligation” to the client, but Starmer took a different approach and has previously declared income received for past legal work. This is a difference in approach between the PM and his AG…
The Cabinet Office refused Robert Jenrick’s demand for an investigation into Hermer’s clients. The Shadow Justice Secretary has now written to the Lords Commissioner for Standards to ask for an investigation into the non-declarations. He adds that seeing as Hermer has “now served in government for six months, any omissions in his register of interests would represent a persistent breach of the Code spanning a significant period.” Jenrick has the bit between his teeth on this and is leading the Tory charge…
Read Jenrick’s full letter below:
Bad news for the progressive media once again—turns out Trump’s policies aren’t just popular across the pond, but they’re resonating with British voters too. A new Opinium poll reveals that a majority of Brits back the President’s hard-line stance on migration, with 58% agreeing that the UK should declare its own “border emergency.” No surprise there given the ever-growing waves of Channel boat crossings…
Meanwhile 53% of Brits support Trump’s vision of a “merit-based, colour-blind society” and that there are only two genders, 55% want to fill our gas reserves up again and export it across the world, and 56% are on board with slapping tariffs on foreign imports to protect British jobs. Red Ed and the liberal elite won’t be getting much sleep over those numbers…
Over the weekend, Trump proved that decisive action gets results. After he slapped a 25% tariff on all Colombian goods in response to President Gustavo Petro blocking two US deportation flights, it took just hours for Petro to fold, agreeing to accept deported migrants without restrictions. Starmer finally got his much-anticipated call with Trump, after the President praised him for doing a “very good job”. The irony wasn’t lost on pundits, given Starmer once claimed a Trump endorsement was more of a curse than a blessing. Perhaps Starmer can turn to his newfound friend for inspiration on how to turn around his dire polling numbers…
Speaking to Sky News off the back of Rachel Reeves’ Air Passenger Duty hike, Ryanair chief executive Michael O’Leary said:
“Labour is dependent on those Red Wall seats, and yet every move she makes poisons economic growth and damages the UK’s recovery… it’s the Chancellor who stumbles from policy misstep to policy misstep… I think her policy decisions are incredibly stupid.”
