Just when things couldn’t get much worse for Keir Starmer’s premiership, they have. Last week the Telegraph exposed Lord Hermer’s continued support for the Al-Sweady claims between 2008 and 2013 against our forces in Afghanistan, despite clear indications that they were a try-on aimed more at devilment than justice (as established in the 2014 inquiry under retired judge Sir Thayne Forbes). Now more correspondence has emerged. This time it reveals embarrassing details about the real Lord Hermer.

This week’s disclosures demonstrate something vastly more damning about Lord Hermer

This week’s disclosures demonstrate something vastly more damning about Lord Hermer

After the inquiry had heard damning evidence about the Iraqi claims, Hermer made abundantly clear his personal view. In an email to a solicitor at Leigh Day, who had inadvertently filed away a vital document indicating that the alleged victims were no innocents, but soldiers bankrolled by Iran, he glossed over the omission, instead congratulating her for promoting the ‘important big picture’ of torture practised in Iraq by UK forces. He added that in contrast to the........

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