Keir Starmer's top legal adviser was under fire on Thursday evening after apparently comparing those who support leaving the likes of the European Convention on Human Rights to Nazis.
Lord Hermer, the Attorney General, hit out at MPs and the media for being behind a 'siren song' pushing for Britain to drop international law.
In a lecture at the Royal United Services Institute, a defence and security think-tank, he said the Labour Government had a 'policy of progressive realism' that means it will never leave international conventions such as the ECHR.
Numerous senior politicians on the Right have called for Britain to leave the convention after it stopped Rwanda deportation flights.
Lord Hermer said such 'songs' had been heard before, citing Nazi ideologist Carl Schmitt, who supported Hitler's policies such as the Night of the Long Knives assassinations.
