Labour rift grows as Starmer’s ‘woke’ Attorney General dubbed an ‘arrogant, progressive fool’ faces calls to resign

A LABOUR enactment deepened contiguous arsenic Britain's Attorney General was blasted an "arrogant, progressive fool".

Lord Richard Hermer faces increasing calls to resign implicit his enactment for Shamima Begum, slavery reparations and surrendering the Chagos Islands.

Labour seasoned Lord Maurice Glasman insisted the Attorney General "has to go" due to the fact that his views don't align with the bulk of Brits.

The laminitis of the traditionalist Blue Labour radical told the New Statesman: "He is the implicit archetype of an arrogant, progressive fool who thinks that law is simply a replacement for politics.

"They speech astir the regularisation of instrumentality but what they privation is simply a regularisation of lawyers.”

Tory Shadow Attorney General Lord David Wolfson endorsed the comments, adding: "Law isn’t a replacement for authorities - some generally, and besides wrong the Labour Party."

Lord Hermer is spearheading Sir Keir Starmer's thrust to surrender the Chagos Islands to Chinese state Mauritius - and wage £9bn successful the process.

As a human rights lawyer earlier being asked by the PM to articulation the government, Lord Hermer represented a drawstring of ­controversial clients, including IRA Leader Gerry Adams.

Lord Hermer besides represented alleged al-Qaeda violent Abu Zubaydah and claimed it was “draconian” to portion jihadi bride Begum of her UK citizenship.

His different clients see a radical of Nepalese and Bangladeshi migrants bringing a assertion against British steadfast Dyson.

Reform Chief Nigel Farage and Shadow Justice Secretary Roberr Jenrick person some called for him to beryllium sack implicit his woke views.

Lord Glasman besides slammed Chancellor Rachel Reeves arsenic a "drone for the Treasury".

He said: "There’s nary imaginativeness of economical renewal and nary thought astir however to renew the faraway towns."