Keir Starmer is under pressure to sack his top legal adviser today over a speech in which he compared demands that the UK quit the European Convention on Human Rights to early Nazi ideology.
Attorney General Lord Hermer today apologised for an astonishing speech last night in which he accused right wing MPs and the media of being behind a 'siren song' pushing for Britain to drop international law.
Speaking at a London think tank the former human rights lawyer and close friend of the Prime Minister 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 in 1934.
The comparison triggered uproar today, with Robert Jenrick, a leading Tory proponent of leaving, branding it 'appalling'.
This afternoon a spokeswoman for the Attorney General said he rejected the Tories' 'characterisation' of his speech at the Royal United Services Institute (RUSI).
