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New revelations have shown how Attroney General Lord Hermer insulted the reputation of British soldiers serving in Iraq. His substantial role in prosecuting servicemen for false war crimes has been exposed, alongside his give-away of the Chagos Islands – all showing that he does not work in the best interests of the UK.

Retired SAS officers are especially angry at the disrespect shown to troops serving abroad with Hermer being almost “gleeful” at the prospect of using human rights law to prosecute our military personnel for alleged war crimes – for which he charged a whopping £450 an hour for his services. The cynical deployment of European human rights law to conflicts in the Middle East was pioneered by Hermer’s legal buddy, our current Prime Minister.

Sir Keir Starmer’s success in winning compensation for an Iraqi unlawfully detained by British forces was inspirational for Hermer and other human rights lawyers. They then proceeded to represent Iraqi insurgents who claimed to be innocent peasants witnessing British soldiers executing Iraqis after the battle of Danny Boy in 2004. It was a completely false accusation made against soldiers bravely fighting back against an ambush.

Disgraced solicitor Phil Shiner was a key figure in this bogus legal action, a colleague of both Hermer and Starmer, and was subsequently given a prison sentence and struck off. Claims for hundreds of thousands of pounds were thankfully later dismissed by the Al-Sweady public inquiry which exposed the malicious lies of Iraqis involved.

Hermer approached it all like a legal game and offered his condolences to a solicitor found out during the inquiry. “Of course we all feel terrible when we make mistakes but most of us are lucky not to have them exposed in this way,” he wrote. What a thing to say! Rejoicing in the fact that most of his past machinations have not been exposed. Apparently, erroneous claims are okay just as long as they’re not revealed.

This disgusting attitude, using human rights law to progress corrupt lefty cases against the British Army, is tantamount to treachery.

And today ongoing anxiety over legal blowback is having a real impact on our ability to fight abroad. It is damaging the morale of our best soldiers and many of them are resigning from special forces units to avoid potential legal minefields in the future. One veteran described it as battling on two fronts. “The enemy in front of us; human rights lawyers behind us.”

The repeal of the Legacy Act, carried over in Parliament this week, is yet another example of Labour lawfare undermining our defence. Originally designed to protect veterans against vexatious prosecution for past military incidents, by replacing the act with a new “Troubles” bill, Starmer is not only betraying our veterans but pushing some of them to the brink of suicide. As always, he is doing this to ingratiate himself with a foreign institution, in this case to gain favour with Ireland and the EU as part of his so-called reset with Brussels.

It is in the same category of legal action, that serves no purpose but to help our enemies, as the giveaway of the Chagos Island military base at huge expense to British taxpayers. All done in order to satisfy an international court of lawyers that has no jurisdiction over us at all.

Neither is it any surprise either to hear Hermer has been advising Caribbean countries on their case to claim billions of pounds from us in compensation for the slave trade. No fan of the British Empire, he represented Kenyan victims of alleged torture during the Mau Mau insurgency, resulting in a £20million government pay-out.

It all fits very neatly into a Left-wing agenda to discredit our past and make us feel ashamed to be British. This project is led by people who do not like a UK of patriots – preferring to virtue-signal in front of their liberal elite mates.

By shaming us they ease the passage of billions of pounds of public money into anti-British causes, while all the time charging top dollar for their services. Again and again, Hermer and his close legal buddy Starmer have proved themselves no friends of Britain and should be removed from the heart of government as soon as possible before they do any more damage.