RISHI Sunak has said the “facts speak for themselves” when asked if Sir Keir Starmer was a “terrorist sympathiser”.
The PM was grilled by TalkTV’s Piers Morgan over whether he would describe the Labour leader in such a way.
Sir Keir Starmer was attacked by Rishi SunakAP
TalkTVRishi Sunak being interviewed by Piers Morgan[/caption]
He has previously slammed his Opposition rival for advising the extremist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir during his legal career.
The group was last month proscribed as a terrorist organisation and its British boss suspended as an NHS GP subsequently.
Asked by Piers if he thought Sir Keir was a “terrorist sympathiser”, Mr Sunak said: “Well I would say let the facts speak for themselves, right?
“There he was, he was their lawyer when they were trying to resist this. We have just proscribed them because we think that is what they are. And these things speak to people’s values, right?”
After proscribing Hizb -utTahrir, Mr Sunak attacked Sir Keir in the Commons – blasting: “I ban them, he invoices them.”
A Labour spokesman said at the time the party leader gave advice to the radicals in a case against the German government.
They said: “The nature of being a lawyer is that you represent and give advice to a whole range of clients including people that you don’t agree with.”
Piers also quizzed Mr Sunak on Abdul Wahid, who led the UK arm of Hizb ut-Tahrir and has been suspended by the NHS.
He said: “I think they [the NHS] are looking into all of that and obviously the professional bodies are independent from the Government and we have been very clear about Hizb ut-Tahrir, they should be a proscribed terrorist organisation.
“We are bringing forward the legislation to do that – and again the question for Keir Starmer, he once upon a time represented Hizb ut-Tahrir.
“Actually he supported them in resisting proscription elsewhere. And that is who he was on the side of. We are trying to ban these people and he was busy trying to represent them.”
Watch the full interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored’s YouTube channel from 2pm and on TalkTV at 8pm
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