Emails obtained by the Telegraph show the Attorney General telling human rights lawyers they had done more good for society than the decorated soldiers they had falsely accused of murder and torture.
Sir Keir Starmer’s closest Cabinet ally sent the message after key evidence emerged at a public inquiry that fatally undermined his claims that British troops tortured and executed civilians in southern Iraq.
In correspondence with colleagues, Lord Hermer said the falsely accused soldiers could never claim to have “made a real difference to people’s lives”, unlike the lawyers who had pursued the case for a decade.
Other emails show him acknowledging it was “inevitable that some of the Iraqi cases were going to collapse” and dismissing anger from the military as “venting”.
The disclosures are likely to intensify pressure on Sir Keir to dismiss Lord Hermer over his “substantial” role in the scandal around the 2004 Battle of Danny Boy, in which British troops were wrongly branded as murderers and torturers for years.
The Telegraph revealed last week that the Attorney General continued pursuing the Danny Boy case as lead counsel on a no-win, no-fee basis despite repeated warnings that his Iraqi clients were lying.
A £31 million public inquiry, chaired by Sir Thayne Forbes, later concluded the allegations were “deliberate lies” driven by “ingrained hostility” towards the British Army....<<<Read More>>>...
