Lord Richard Hermer says that law is his “happy space”. As the government grapples with the Iran war, Donald Trump’s threat to scrap the US-UK trade deal and Labour’s slide in the polls, it’s good to know that such a space still exists for a senior member of the party.
Within hours of our lunch ending, Sir Keir Starmer is facing calls to resign over the failed vetting of Peter Mandelson.
None of these events appear to detract from the optimism of the attorney-general for England and Wales, and one of the prime minister’s closest allies, who greets me cheerily at Sis&Sibs, a Turkish-Mediterranean café in his north London neighbourhood: “The headline point is, I love this job . . . every day I kind of skip in.”
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