War heroes have slammed Keir Starmer’s closest advisor for pursuing legal claims against Iraq veterans despite being warned they were lies.
Richard Hermer, the Attorney General, pursued the ‘witch hunt’ against British troops when he was a senior lawyer in 2008.
Soldiers who had served their country on the battlefield were hounded with false allegations that they had tortured and murdered civilians after the 2004 Battle of Danny Boy in southern Iraq.
Emails have now revealed that Lord Hermer was warned the claims were ‘nonsense’, and even expressed his own doubts.
In one astonishing message to colleague Martyn Day, a leading human rights lawyer
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