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Everyone’s favourite human rights aficionado is back at it again. Clearly not content with comparing critics of the ECHR to Nazis, Lord Richard Hermer has now suggested detractors of the foreign court want migrants to ‘drown’.
In an interview with Nick Robinson on his Political Thinking podcast, the Attorney General name-checked the Tories and Reform as cheerleaders for leaving migrants to drown in the Channel. Hermer had been responding to Robinson’s observation that parties of the right want to ‘round people up on the beaches and send them somewhere else’. To which Sir Keir Starmer’s close pal replied:
I think what they mean by that is they let people drown in the water. And that is not a British way to deal with it. That is not commensurate with our values.
Hilariously, Hermer also trumpeted that the government was ‘starting to be pretty effective in dealing with small boats’. That is, of course, despite nearly 10,000 illegal migrants having arrived by dinghy so far this year. The Attorney General then lavished praise on the ECHR as a vehicle for agreeing deals, such as the famously successful one-in-one-out arrangement with France.
