Blocker Hermer Instructs Civil Servants to Report Ministers to Him

Guido has highlighted Lord Hermer’s influence over government decision-making from the start. Now, documents seen by The Telegraph reveal just how far that control extends. Hermer has personally rewritten official guidance originally issued by former Attorney General Suella Braverman. Effectively handing himself a veto over policies and boosting powers of the lawyer class in Whitehall…

Lawyers are told to assume every ministerial decision could face legal challenge.[…] Read the rest