Posted on 01/27/2026 6:00:04 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
Sir Keir Starmer led a legal case that opened the door to hundreds of British soldiers being pursued for alleged war crimes, The Telegraph can disclose.
The now Prime Minister worked free of charge alongside his close ally, Lord Hermer, now the Attorney General, and the now disgraced solicitor Phil Shiner on a human rights claim in 2007 that reshaped the law governing troops in war zones.
Court documents unearthed by The Telegraph reveal Sir Keir was a lead barrister on the claim, which ultimately led the Ministry of Defence to order fresh inquiries into deaths in Iraq. It triggered years of criminal investigations into soldiers who had been wrongly accused, at enormous cost to the taxpayer. Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, accused Sir Keir of “unleashing the witch hunt against British troops”.
As part of the 2007 case, Sir Keir and Lord Hermer urged the courts to order a fresh inquiry into a British soldier who had already been cleared twice of murder over the death of an Iraqi man in 2003 (see extracts below), telling judges that earlier investigations had been “perfunctory” and “wholly inadequate”.
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Goth Waifu Amelia is now the mascot of UK nationalism and has gone viral after the UK panicked and took her game down.
Make UK great again.
https://x.com/Pirat_Nation/status/2012646114139230254
Flush the Steamer.
Get cracking, lads!
Jeez, this guy doesn’t let a day go by without dropping another hot smelly crap on his own country.
He’s kinda like a Joe Biden without the dementia.
It’s not just Iraq War Veterans that Starmer and the Labour Government are going after.
I read recently that inquires are being made about British SAS soldiers and members of the Northern Ireland IRA that goes back to 1992.
The First Gulf War was in 1991 (Desert Shield), and we had SAS working with us.
And Desert Storm...
Could he get any lower?
Sure he can
That’s why W⚓️’s Deep State installed him.
That’s why millions of Brits have had their local elections postponed.
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