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Lord Hermer has 'defended people who hate our country', Robert Jenrick fumes
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Jun 4, 2025
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has launched a scathing attack on Attorney General Lord Hermer, claiming he has "built his entire career defending people who hate our country".Speaking to GB News, Jenrick told host Patrick Christys that Hermer was "handpicked" by the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and is someone who "doesn't like" Britain.FULL STORY HERE.
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So, look, what's the implication here, then
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that Lord Hermer's like an enemy of Britain? Well, Keir Starmer handpicked the Attorney-General
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to sit around the Cabinet table, the most senior legal officer in the government
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and he chose his old friend, Lord Hermer, someone who has built his entire career
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defending people who hate our country. Gerry Adams, Shamima Begum, lieutenants of Osama bin Laden, alleged terrorists
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people who have committed terrible crimes or who have tried to do appalling things to us and our allies
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And this man is now in charge of the government's legal department
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and of actually defending the government, despite spending year after year fighting against the British government
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You couldn't think of somebody less suited for this job, somebody who is bringing the office of Attorney General into disrepute
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And the fact that Starmer appointed him says something very powerful about Starmer as a man
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Starmer has chosen somebody who doesn't like our country to be its most senior legal officer
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So the Independent Standards Commissioner has cleared him said that he OK he not in some way compromised so it important to say that But one of the things that you really tried to go at in that video there
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was the cab rank rule. This is the defence that a lot of barristers
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both including Keir Starmer and Lord Hermer, have, well, many people might say hidden behind at times
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Would you want us to explain that to our viewers and listeners as you understand it? Yeah, so there's an important legal principle called the cab rank rule
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which is used by many criminal barristers to say that they just have to take the first client that comes to their chambers to represent
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And that's important because you shouldn't judge a barrister by the clients that they take on because people need legal representation
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And our criminal barristers often represent people who have committed or accused of heinous crimes
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And that doesn't reflect on the barrister who happens to be the one representing them in court
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but that is total BS when it comes to Lord Hermer. He is one of the most successful human rights
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lawyers in our country He was inundated with cases He got to choose who he represented And so when he represented Jerry Adams or Shamima Begum it wasn just that these were the next cases in the pile and he was forced to represent them
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These were positive choices by him and they speak to him and the kinds of people he was willing to represent
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You and I would not represent Jerry Adams or Shamima Begum. He had a choice, he chose to represent them
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and I don't think somebody who chose to represent those people and many others should now be sat around the Cabinet table
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of the United Kingdom. Yeah, I mean, just legally, by definition, none of those cases practically disqualify him from that role
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I suppose it's maybe more of a moral thing or a judgement call by our Prime Minister to put that man in charge
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Just with that in mind, then, do you really think that Britain is safe with Starmer and Lord Hermer at the helm
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No, because you've got two men whose careers have been built on defending people who actively hate our country
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And that speaks to the moral character of these people. They're not patriotic people
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And they are now in charge of making the most important decisions for our country. And you see some of the decisions that they taking You know they chosen for example to give away the Chagos Islands to an ally of China and pay billions of pounds for the privilege They chosen to drop a winnable appeal in the High Court in Northern Ireland which is now going to mean
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that we may well have to pay hundreds of millions of pounds in compensation to terrorist sympathisers
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and suspects, members of the IRA, for example. They've chosen to ditch the immunity that we had
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given to those who'd served in our armed forces during the period of the Troubles. Brave men who
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are now in their 70s and 80s are going to spend the last days of their lives in court fighting for
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their reputation and their freedom. These are the decisions that they are taking and they are a
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reflection on their character and the careers that they've built in the law. Well it remains to be
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seen what Keir Starmer does. It's important to say that as it currently stands he's going to stick by
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Lord Hermer, who is a good friend of his, I believe, did the toast, actually, at Keir Starmer's ceremony when he became a then QC
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Of course, now will be classed as a KEC. Legally, there's nothing wrong with what they've done
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It's maybe more of a questionable moral choice. People at home who are listening can make their own minds about that
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