AS I WRITE THIS, SIR KEIR Starmer is on the cusp of becoming prime minister. The first lawyer of any note to be PM since H. H. Asquith KC more than a century ago, his views on legal and constitutional issues are naturally of some interest.
This is not least because, as a young radical lawyer, Starmer, once the secretary of the Haldane Society of Socialist Lawyers, held views which are decidedly out of favour in today’s Labour Party. Take human rights. In an
