Labour Minister Doubles Down on Hermer’s Comparison of ECHR Critics to Nazis

Education minister Catherine McKinnell has doubled down on attorney general and Starmer’s Chagos surrender chum Richard Hermer’s claim yesterday that those who call to quit the ECHR are comparable to Nazis. Hermer said at the defence think tank RUSI yesterday:

“The claim that international law is fine as far as it goes, but can be put aside when the conditions change, is a claim that was made in the early 1930s by ‘realist’ jurists in Germany most notably Carl Schmitt, whose central thesis was in essence the claim that state power is all that counts, not law.