Keir Starmer's Legal Chief Backs Down Over 'Nazi' Jibe At Tories And Reform

Attorney general Lord Hermer.

Keir Starmer’s law chief has been forced to back down after he appeared to compare the Tories and Reform UK to the Nazis.

Lord Hermer provoked an angry backlash in a speech defending the UK’s membership of the European Convention on Human Rights.

The attorney general compared Conservative and Reform calls for Britain to leave the ECHR to 1930s Germany.

In a speech on Thursday, he said: “The claim that international law is fine as far as it goes...