Hermer harm
THE biggest obstacle faced by Sir Keir Starmer in his effort to solve the asylum crisis is sitting in his own Cabinet.
Lord Hermer, his arrogant and hideously out-of-touch Attorney General, has told the PM that quitting the European Convention on Human Rights is “off the table”, despite the fact it is now routinely used to block deportations of criminals and illegal immigrants on the most spurious grounds.
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Hermer thinks that slavishly sticking to a flawed and outdated treaty should trump the democratic wishes of the British people.
Small boat arrivals in Britain have now hit 181,326 since 2018, eclipsing the combined strength of our Armed Forces.
Yet Lord Hermer — who once compared demands to leave the ECHR to early Nazi ideology — is still unmoved.
The case against his judgment is strong.
Ministers have grown exasperated by his meddling, and say it has become a block on Government decision-making.
Hermer’s fingerprints were all over the decision to surrender the Chagos Islands and spend £30billion to keep open a military base we already had.
And he swayed the decision to tear up a law protecting veteran soldiers who served in Northern Ireland from often vexatious cases.
Yet he has a Svengali-like hold over the PM, who is a close legal pal.
Sir Keir has a tough new Home Secretary in Shabana Mahmood who says she is determined to stop the boats.
The PM needs to understand she has no chance with Lord Hermer sitting opposite.
Ed in the sand
HOW much longer will Ed Miliband be allowed to continue with his mad dash to Net Zero?
Big business and investors can see how the Energy Secretary’s obsession is putting up prices, costing jobs and stifling growth.
Sir Jim Ratcliffe, owner of chemicals giant Ineos, turned his back on Britain this week to invest £3billion in the USA, blaming crippling windfall taxes.
Before the General Election, Miliband promised the cost of heating and lighting our homes would fall by £300.
Instead, he’s saddling consumers with some of the highest bills in the world.
Voters can see past his zealotry — with support for a ban on diesel and petrol cars slumping.
The other countries which most enthusiastically embraced Net Zero — including Canada and New Zealand — are now backpedalling.
In Denmark, the world’s biggest wind farm developer Orsted, once hailed as a paragon of green industry virtue, has had to be bailed out with billions of pounds from Danish taxpayers.
Wait for Miliband to drive the economy fully off a cliff. Or sack him now and put the rest of us out of our misery.
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