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Lord Hermer's role as Attorney General is 'very concerning' for Britons, Kelvin MacKenzie claims
Jun 3, 2025
Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to remove Lord Hermer as Attorney General after "signing off" on Lucy Connolly's prosecution.Speaking to GB News, former editor of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie claimed he is "very concerned" for Lord Hermer's position at "the top of the legal system".FULL STORY HERE.
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There are yet more calls for the Attorney-General, Lord Hermer
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to resign or be sacked after it emerged that he declined to review unduly lenient sentences for terrorists and paedophiles
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Lord Hermer did nevertheless sign off the prosecution of Lucy Connolly, who received a 31-month prison sentence after pleading guilty
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to stirring up racial hatred. He's also been accused of hypocrisy today after it emerged
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that the UK is not among nine countries calling for reform of the ECHR
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despite Lord Hermer apparently specifically saying he would do so and us having 1,200 mostly young men
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just nipping across the channel on Saturday. These latest revelations come just days
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after he was forced to apologise over comments in which he compared calls to leave the ECHR
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to the rise of Nazism. I'm joined now by the former editor with his son, Calvin McKenzie
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Calvin, has he got to go? Well, he may have to go
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but of course he's a good mate with the current Prime Minister
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who I think is probably in the similar sort of position as Kemi Badenow, to be honest
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Be lucky if he's here next May. But dealing with this serious issue, he's the attorney general
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He is the top of the legal pyramid in this country. I didn't know, I don't think anybody else knew, that he'd signed off on the Lucy Connolly prosecution
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I would say that was pretty unusual to start with The other aspect to look at it which is rather a I lower my eyes at it is that he made his money in the past had been a human rights lawyer as did the Prime Minister
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They were used to fighting for foreigners and trying to keep them in their country
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despite the fact that everybody in their country, bar those two who were making money out of it
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would have got rid of them. So if Lucy Connolly said something disobliging about foreigners
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isn't it not surprising that he feels he must act for them
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And isn't it even worse, as has been revealed, and I think by Richard Tice tonight
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that he refused to have a look at the sentence of a rapist
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rapist who only got 28 months for attacking a woman, right? There's no ifs and buts about that
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He gets 28 months, and yet 31 months for Lucy Connolly is considered appropriate. It's a tweet
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for God's sake. It doesn't mean anything. One moment of anger suddenly becomes more important
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than a physical attack on a woman. Is that correct? And is it correct, by the way
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that he also refuses to have addressed by the judges a sentence for a chap called Mohammed
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who had sent money which he knew was going to a Syrian who was going to deal with it and send it towards terrorism He doesn do anything about that Could that be anything to do with his own background
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of making money out of those kind of communities for donkey's years
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So what do you think? Well, yeah, no, it's a fair question because of where we are, where
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there is a procession of what many people might regard as inexplicable decisions
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on top of the fact that he's been inexplicably appointed as our Attorney General
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He's an international human rights lawyer who mysteriously has a back catalogue of representing
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I would argue, some of the worst people that have ever walked the face of the earth, a bizarre career choice, who is now the Attorney General
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who gets a say over, basically, the country's laws, etc. I mean, why on earth is he in this position
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I mean, should we be worried about it? Well, I'd be worried about it in one respect
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After all, he had no political background. The reason he got the job is because he was one of Stalmer's mates
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And you can imagine, can't you, that they talk about legalese all day long
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They talk about the great triumphs they've had by keeping various foreigners with rather dodgy backgrounds in our country
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and the kind of people that they like acting for, the kind of Adams of this world, right
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So they have plenty in common. Stalmer probably doesn't have many friends
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When you see him in action, you can understand that. If you were in a pub and you saw a Starmer
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you be able to have a pub at 100 miles an hour Whereas the funny thing is with Farage actually if you saw saw him there you dive in to have a pilot That is the difference And so I feel very concerned about this guy
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And by the way, all the back stuff coming out of the Cabinet
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is that they can't stand him either. They can't stand him because he's a nitpicking liar
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I can't stand him because of his actions. I really think that we are essentially being led by people
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who, for whatever reason, didn't go to Oxbridge. And maybe that weighs heavy. like a giant chip on their shoulders
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and have spent the last however many decades telling each other how brilliant and intellectual they are
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who are now coming into contact with reality and actually people don't really like them
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and their views aren't that popular. Tough way to find out, isn't it? But, Kelvin, look, thank you very, very much
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Always a pleasure, my good man. Kelvin McKenzie there, former editor of The Sun. A spokesman for the Attorney-General's Office
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said decisions to prosecute are rightly made independently of government by the Crown Prosecution Services
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Decisions relating to conviction, sentencing and sentencing length are made entirely independent of the government by juries and judges
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Right. And speaking about his Nazi comments, a spokesman for Lord Hermer, he's been busy
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with the spokesperson, hasn't he? He says the Attorney General gave a speech defending international law, which underpins our security, protects against threats from aggressive states
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like Russia and helps tackle organised immigration crime. He rejects the characterisation of his
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speech by the Conservatives. He acknowledges, though, that his choice of words was clumsy
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and regrets having used this reference. Right. So they probably also point out he may well
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claiming didn't only get the job that Keir Starmer's mate
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