Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer has been urged to remove Lord Hermer as Attorney General after "signing off" on Lucy Connolly's prosecution.Speaking to GB News, former editor of The Sun Kelvin MacKenzie claimed he is "very concerned" for Lord Hermer's position at "the top of the legal system".FULL STORY HERE.
00:00There are yet more calls for the Attorney General, Lord Hermer, to resign or be sacked after it emerged that he declined to review unduly lenient sentences for terrorists and paedophiles.
00:11Lord Hermer did nevertheless sign off the prosecution of Lucy Connolly, who received a 31-month prison sentence after pleading guilty to stirring up racial hatred.
00:20He's also been accused of hypocrisy today after it emerged that the UK is not among nine countries calling for reform of the ECHR.
00:29Despite Lord Hermer apparently specifically saying he would do so and us having 1,200 mostly young men just nipping across the channel on Saturday.
00:37These latest revelations come just days after he was forced to apologise over comments in which he compared calls to leave the ECHR to the rise of Nazism.
00:45I'm joined now by the former editor of the Sun, Calvin McKenzie. Calvin, has he got to go?
00:49Well, he may have to go, but of course he's good mates with the current Prime Minister, who I think is probably in the similar sort of position as Kemi Baden on, to be honest.
01:01Be lucky if he's here next May.
01:04But dealing with this serious issue, he's the Attorney General.
01:09He is the top of the legal pyramid in this country.
01:12I didn't know, I don't think anybody else knew, that he'd signed off on the Lucy Connolly prosecution.
01:19I would say that was pretty unusual to start with.
01:23The other aspect to look at it, which is rather, I'd lower my eyes at it, is that he made his money in the past, being a human rights lawyer, as did the Prime Minister.
01:37They were used to fighting for foreigners and trying to keep them in their country, despite the fact that everybody in their country, bar those two who were making money out of it, would have got rid of them.
01:49So if Lucy Connolly said something disobliging about foreigners, isn't it not surprising that he feels he must act for them?
02:00And isn't it even worse, as has been revealed, and I think by Richard Tice tonight, that he refused to have a look at the sentence of a rapist who only got 28 months for attacking a woman, right?
02:18There's no ifs and buts about that.
02:20He gets 28 months, and yet 31 months for Lucy Connolly is considered appropriate.
02:26It's a tweet, for God's sake.
02:28It doesn't mean anything.
02:29One moment of anger suddenly becomes more important than a physical attack on a woman.
02:37Is that correct?
02:37And is it correct, by the way, that he also refuses to have addressed by the judges a sentence for a chap called Mohammed, who had sent money, which he knew was going to a Syrian who was going to deal with it and send it towards terrorism?
02:58He doesn't do anything about that.
02:59So what do you...
02:59Could that be anything to do with his own background of making money out of those kind of communities for donkey's years?
03:06So what do you think...
03:07Well, yeah, no, it's a fair question because of where we are, where there is a procession of what many people might regard as inexplicable decisions, on top of the fact that he's been inexplicably appointed as our Attorney General.
03:19He's an international human rights lawyer who mysteriously has a back catalogue of representing, I would argue, some of the worst people that have ever walked the face of the earth, a bizarre career choice, who is now the Attorney General, who gets a say over, basically, the country's laws, etc.
03:34I mean, why on earth is he in this position?
03:37I mean, and should this...
03:39Should we be worried about it?
03:41Well, I'd be worried about it in one respect.
03:43After all, he had no political background.
03:45The reason he got the job is because he was one of the Starmer's mates.
03:49And you can imagine, can't you, that they talk about legalese all day long.
03:54They talk about the great triumphs they've had by keeping various foreigners with rather dodgy backgrounds in our country and the kind of people that they like acting for, the kind of Adams of this world, right?
04:07So they have plenty in common.
04:09Starmer probably doesn't have many friends.
04:11When you see him in action, you can understand that if you were in a pub and you saw a Starmer, you'd be able to have a pub at 100 miles an hour.
04:17Whereas the funny thing is with Farage, actually, if you saw her in there, you'd dive in to have a pub.
04:22That is the difference.
04:23And so I feel very concerned about this guy.
04:26And by the way, all the back stuff coming out of the Cabinet is that they can't stand him either.
04:33They can't stand him because he's a nitpicking liar.
04:36I can't stand him because of his actions.
04:38I really think that we are essentially being led by people who, for whatever reason, didn't go to Oxbridge.
04:43And maybe that weighs heavy like a giant chip on their shoulders.
04:46And have spent the last however many decades telling each other how brilliant and intellectual they are.
04:51Who are now coming into contact with reality.
04:53And actually, people don't really like them.
04:55And their views aren't that popular.
04:56Tough way to find out, isn't it?
04:58But, Kelvin, look, thank you very, very much.
04:59Always a pleasure, my good man.
05:01Kelvin McKenzie, their former editor of The Sud.
05:02A spokesman for the Attorney General's office said decisions to prosecute are rightly made independently of government by the Crown Prosecution Services.
05:11Decisions relating to conviction sentencing and sentencing length are made entirely independent of the government by juries and judges.
05:19Right, and speaking about his Nazi comments, a spokesman for Lord Hermer.
05:23He's been busy, this spokesperson, hasn't he?
05:25He says,
05:25Right, so they'd probably also point out he may well claim he didn't only get the job because Keir Starmer's mate.
