'Downing Street has misled GB News in attempt to save Sir Keir Starmer's skin,' Patrick Christys says

That led to countless British war heroes being prosecuted for crimes that they did not commit. Both he and Lord Hermer are accused of working on a case which led to a witch hunt against the brave men and women who served this country in the heat of battle.

The detail, published in The Daily Telegraph, is that Starmer and 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.

He was actually entirely innocent, and it took him 13 years to clear his name.

But what this did was set a legal precedent that opened the door for countless British soldiers to be prosecuted over their conduct during the Iraq War.

The Daily Telegraph also revealed that Starmer worked alongside disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner in a separate case to help prosecute our brave veterans between 2005 and 2007.

Now, you might remember the name Phil Shiner because in 2017, Phil Shiner was struck off and given a two year suspended prison sentence for lying about British troops murdering and torturing Iraqi civilians in other cases.

The Prime Minister says he did not continue his association with him after he was convicted for fraud.

This was obviously a huge scandal. It meant that the man who is now our Prime Minister didn't just work for free on a case that led to British war veterans being prosecuted, but also worked with a man who falsely accused British troops of war crimes on a different case - even if he didn't know this at the time.

Now that's as bad as it gets. The vast majority of the British public would think that anyone who has done that should never be Prime Minister.

It also completely destroyed Keir Starmer's excuse for representing the catalogue of awful, Britain-hating terrorists that he represented as a lawyer.

Records show that he's represented loads of Islamist terrorists, including Abu Qatada, Osama bin Laden's right hand man. He's also represented members of the IRA.

He could always claim that it was the cab rank rule that he was just doing his job, but not when it came to prosecuting British troops, because he helped with that for free on at least one of the cases that he was involved with.

He chose to do that. This scandal came at the same time that Starmer was facing several other huge scandals. It was back in January when this original story broke.

And that's important because he was already the most unpopular Prime Minister in British history. The Peter Mandelson story was blowing up again.

It was the same time you might remember that Starmer faced a leadership challenge from Andy Burnham.

They had just U-turned on digital ID and some of Rachel Reeves economic policies, and he had just approved the Chinese 'super' embassy, despite revelations that it could be used as a massive spy base right in the heart of London.

In fact, when the Daily Telegraph story broke, Starmer was literally about to get on a plane to China.

The story about him working to help prosecute British veterans could have finished him off. So what did Downing Street do?

Well, it looks like they misled us to make it go away. As I was reporting the story, Downing Street called our newsroom and spoke to my producer, and they gave us the distinct impression that Starmer had never, ever worked with the disgraced lawyer Phil Shiner.

And I had to make this clarification live on air.

That's what they said. Starmer then sent his Veterans Minister to Parliament to repeat the same claim.

And then it turned out - shock, horror - that she was misleading Parliament. Starmer did work with Phil Shiner.

Court documents proved that he'd worked on cases to prosecute troops, and he'd even written a chapter in a book edited by Phil Shiner calling for a mandatory investigation into Iraq War veterans.

Yesterday, the Veterans Minister had to come back to Parliament to apologise for misleading Parliament.

So where did the misleading information to both us here at GB News and Parliament come from?

Well, I put it to you that the only person in the world with a precise, intimate knowledge of who Starmer did and didn't work with is Sir Keir Starmer himself.

Did the order to mislead us and Parliament come directly from him? And it's not the first time that this Labour Government has misled us in a big way. Do you remember when this happened?

That's a clip there of when the historic Britannia Hotel in Canary Wharf just mysteriously closed its doors one day, and we thought it was going to become one of the country's largest migrant hotels.

So we went to the Home Office and they point blank told us that it would not be used as a migrant hotel. And then a few days later, this happened.

It turned into a migrant hotel. That was also misleading from them, wasn't it, to say the least? In my view, Starmer should be disqualified from public office because of the terrible work he did in the legal profession.

But what's worse is that Downing Street is misleading us about Starmer's legal past in an attempt to avoid a massive scandal. They were hoping it would go away.

I think today Downing Street did admit to us that they should have been clearer. That's nice, isn't it?

Look, that snivelling north London human rights lawyer isn't fit to lace the boots of our brave veterans. He should apologise to them and then he should resign.

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