International law ‘at heart’ of Starmer’s foreign policy, says attorney general
In a statement to the Chief Public Prosecutor BBC, a commitment to international law “Sir Keir Starmer’s government” is definitely going to the heart “and approach to foreign policy.
In his first publication interview, Lord Richard Hermer, the cabinet’s chief legal adviser, said the government was determined globally that he was “leading to lead international law issues”.
He argued that Britain has made economic agreements with the United States, India and the EU in recent months.
The Chief Public Prosecutor also defended Starmer’s decision to search for a “hot” relationship with President Trump even at the expense of “short -term political earnings”.
Lord Hermer’s comments, in a complete interview for an approaching one BBC Radio 4 Program Starmer’s Stormy YearMade before Latest speculation about legal advice It is about the government’s approach to the conflict between Israel and Iran.
However, while ministers wander at a dangerous diplomatic moment, they help illuminate the approach taken by one of the most powerful figures in the government.
Monday The government refused to say many times Arguing that America believes that its strikes to Iran are legal, and that there is no question for the evaluation of the British ministers.
Almost a year ago, before the surprise appointment, an approach to the law by Hermer, a former friend of the Prime Minister, who had no political profile, was a lasting debate throughout Starmer’s premiere.
When asked whether international law is a “red line” for the prime minister in foreign policy, “If you ask me what the interest that is a kind of manager of Keir is, it is to make life better for the people of this country.”
“Is international law important for this government and this prime minister?
“It is important to itself, but it is also important, because it goes to the heart of what we are trying to achieve, which is to make life better for people in this country.
“And that’s why I was definitely convinced and I think the government was completely united in this regard, in fact, we serve all kinds of law – domestic law and international law – national interests.”
Hermer added: “Look, we have made trade agreements with the US, the EU with the EU and we can do it because we go back to the world stage as a country with ties.
“Nobody wants to make a deal with people they don’t trust.
“We do. We succeed. We secure these trade agreements that are necessary to make people’s lives better in this country.
“We provide agreements with France, which will deal with other fundamental problems we encounter, and to migrate with Germany and we can do it because we invented it and we really comply with international law problems.
“Being a well -intentioned player in international law belongs to the national interests of this country with an overwhelming majority.”
Speaking about Britain’s relationship with the United States, Hermer said, “This is a relationship that will undoubtedly have various pressures at various points, but it is absolutely vital to have.
“I think Keir’s approach is not to give instinctively to this kind of love for short -term political gain, but rather to ensure that our relationship with the US remains warm, to ensure that the communication channels are always open, and that there is mutual respect between us.
“I think this overwhelming majority to the interests of this country.”
In fact, in the 2003 film, a fictional prime minister contradicts the US president at a press conference.
Hermer at the beginning of this year regret “incompetent” words He compared the calls of Britain to leave international laws and arguments in Germany in the 1930s.
In a speech, he criticized the politicians who claimed that Britain should abandon the restrictions of international law in favor of raw power, and made similar claims by legal theorists in Germany in the years before the Nazis came to power.
Some conservatives and reforms asked Britain to withdraw from the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR).
