Well, well, well. After a rather rocky ride in the Sunday papers, Lord Hermer is back in the spotlight this week – for all the wrong reasons. It has emerged that Labour MPs are now calling on the Prime Minister’s ethics tsar to probe the Attorney General over potential conflicts of interest. Talk about a bad start to the job, eh?
Richard Hermer has only been in post for seven months and yet he’s managed to ruffle a rather lot of feathers. The Attorney General has refused to reveal details of payments he has received since becoming a minister, including any earnings from his list of former clients, in a position not in keeping with his predecessors. More than that, Hermer has refused to tell MPs whether he has recused himself from offering advice on cases in which he previously was involved in as a lawyer. How very curious…
Questions about Hermer’s potential conflicts of interests have been floating around for quite some time now.
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