'It's a tweet, for God's sake!' Keir Starmer told to SACK Lord Hermer after he 'signed off' Lucy Connolly prosecution

Lord Hermer has sparked calls to be removed by Starmer after declining to review "unduly lenient" sentences given to a rapist, a paedophile and a terrorist fundraiser despite signing off on the prosecution of Lucy Connolly.

The three criminals all received softer sentences than Connolly, who was imprisoned for 31 months for a tweet about last year's Southport attacks.

Discussing Hermer on GB News, MacKenzie explained: "He may have to go, but of course he's a good mates with the current Prime Minister, who I think is probably in the similar sort of position as Kemi Badenoch, to be honest, he'll be lucky if he's here next May.

"But dealing with this serious issue, he's the Attorney General, he is the top of the legal pyramid in this country. I don't think anybody else knew that he'd signed off on the Lucy Connolly prosecution, and I would say that was pretty unusual."

Highlighting Lord Hermer's previous position as a human rights lawyer, Kelvin suggested: "He made his money in the past as a human rights lawyer, as did the Prime Minister.

"They were used to fighting for foreigners and trying to keep them in the country, despite the fact that everybody in that country, bar those two are making money out of it, would have got rid of them.

"So if Lucy Connolly said something disobliging about foreigners, it's not surprising that he feels he must act for them."

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Criticising the decision to sentence Lucy Connolly to 31 months in prison despite more serious crimes being handed less jail time, MacKenzie fumed: "He refused to have a look at the sentence of a rapist who only got 28 months for attacking a woman. He gets 28 months, and yet 31 months for Lucy Connolly is considered appropriate.

"It's a tweet, for God's sake, it doesn't mean anything. One moment of anger suddenly becomes more important than a physical attack on a woman."

Asked by host Patrick Christys if Britons should be "worried" about Lord Hermer's role in the nation's laws, MacKenzie cautioned: "I'd be worried about it, in one respect. After all, he had no political background.

"The reason he got the job is because he was one of Starmer's mates. You can imagine that they talk about legalese all day long, they talk about the great triumphs they've had by keeping various foreigners with rather dodgy backgrounds in our country, acting for the kind of Adamses of this world.

"So they have plenty in common, and so I feel very concerned about this guy."

In a pointed criticism of Keir Starmer, MacKenzie concluded: "By the way, all the back stuff coming out of the cabinet is that they can't stand him. They can't stand him because he's a nitpicking lawyer, I can't stand him because of his actions."

A spokesman for the Attorney General's office said: "Decisions to prosecute are rightly made independently of Government by the Crown Prosecution Service.

"Decisions relating to conviction, sentencing and sentencing length are made entirely independent of the Government by juries and judges."