Attorney general apologises for comparing Tories and Reform to Nazis

Badenoch and Farage seize on Richard Hermer's clumsy' remark in speech made in defence of international law

The attorney general has apologised for a clumsy" remark that compared Conservative and Reform calls to disregard international treaties and quit the European convention of human rights (ECHR) with the early days of Nazi Germany.

In a speech on Thursday, Richard Hermer defended the government's commitment to abide by international law and likened those who wanted to ignore it to German jurists in the 1930s, such as Carl Schmitt.