Top judge blasts Starmer over migrant case

Dear oh dear. Sir Keir Starmer hasn’t caught a break since his party took power last July – and this week is no exception. Now the UK’s most senior judge has taken a pop at the Labour leader over ‘unacceptable’ criticism of an immigration judge who allowed Gazan refugees entry to the UK. Even the lawyers are turning on the former DPP!

The remarks of the Lady Chief Justice Baroness Sue Carr followed a rather heated exchange at PMQs last Wednesday. Both Starmer and the Tory party leader Kemi Badenoch blasted the judge’s move to allow a Palestinian family to come to Britain via the Ukrainian refugee programme. Sir Keir fumed that the decision wasn’t just wrong, but added that Home Secretary Yvette Cooper was hard at work closing the ‘loophole’ in the scheme.

Carr – who has set up a new security Taskforce to review judicial security – revealed she had written to both the Prime Minister and the Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood to express how she had been ‘deeply troubled’ by the comments in the Chamber.