As Prime Minister of Great Britain, Sir Keir Starmer has a huge responsibility. And he’s not fit for it.
Keir Starmer has destroyed the lives of veterans but has the power to send soldiers to war (Image: Getty)
The PM is not the formal head of the armed forces. Thankfully, that role belongs to the sovereign, not a passing politician. But he does control the military, navy and air force. He can dispatch British men and women to fight in foreign wars, and potentially send them to their deaths. In return, those soldiers need to know one thing above all else. That their Prime Minister has their back. Keir Starmer does not. He’s more likely to shoot them in it. Years later, through the courts, making their post-service lives a misery.
That’s what we’ve learned from today’s shocking revelations that he’s been pursuing a legal “witch hunt” against British veterans. What British soldier would willingly risk their life for a commander like this? A man who appears more concerned with appeasing the other side than standing up for his own. A man who seems instinctively hostile to the people he would happily send into harm’s way.
Last Saturday, I posed a rhetorical question: If you were in a fight, would you want Keir Starmer in your corner? My answer: “Only if you had a death wish. Starmer would lecture you about the rules, then tie one arm behind your back while everyone else reached for their knuckledusters.”
My complaint was that he clings to a collapsing, rules-based global order. One where Britain obeys the rules while the US, China and Russia barely acknowledge they exist. Now we know it’s worse than that.
It turns out that Starmer spearheaded a legal campaign that paved the way for hundreds of British soldiers to be pursued through the courts for alleged war crimes. Driven by a zealous urge to see British troops prosecuted, the PM donated his services free of charge, working alongside his crony Lord Hermer, who’s now the Attorney General, for heaven’s sake.
Starmer also collaborated with the now-disgraced solicitor Phil Shiner on a human rights claim in 2007 that fundamentally reshaped the legal framework governing troops in combat zones. That triggered years of criminal investigations into soldiers who were falsely accused, at enormous cost to the taxpayer.
Johnny Mercer, the former veterans minister, accused Starmer of “unleashing the witch hunt against British troops”. And while those soldiers fight to rebuild their lives, the man who led that campaign is running the country, and the armed forces.
Which is horrifying. Especially now, as Russia wages a murderous war in Ukraine and openly threatens Britain with nuclear attack.
Starmer is eager to offer up British forces to police borders or play peacekeeper, anything that sounds good at the international conferences he so enjoys. Yet he’s already shown he is willing to team up with dubious lawyers to ruin the same soldiers lives if they make it home alive. Free. Gratis. No charge.
US President Donald Trump enraged many by insulting our soldiers who gave their lives in Afghanistan and Iraq. What Starmer has done is much worse. He’s actively stabbed them in the back. In fact, he’s stabbed every Briton in the back, by going after the soldiers who bravely serve our country.
Incredibly, as PM Starmer could one day send British troops into battle. And they will go, because they’re loyal to King and country.
But Starmer is loyal to another cause entirely. International law. If he were a real soldier, he’d be relieved of his command. And put on a charge.
