A Labour MP last night demanded that Sir Keir Starmer's controversial top legal adviser be sacked.
Graham Stringer is the first MP within the party to publicly come out against Attorney General Lord Hermer, accusing him of putting international treaties above democracy and trying to seize control of the Government's agenda.
The veteran backbencher also blamed the Attorney General – who was forced to apologise in May for likening criticism of the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) to 1930s Germany – for billions of pounds of taxpayers' money being spent on the surrender of the Chagos Islands.
And he said it was wrong that the former human rights barrister, handed the crucial position of Attorney General by his friend the Prime Minister after the election, was in the unelected House of Lords rather than being answerable to MPs in the Commons.
Mr Stringer, who last week became the first Labour MP to call for the UK to ditch the ECHR in order to get a grip on migration, told BBC Radio 5 Live yesterday: 'The Attorney General believes that these treaties are more important than democracy.
