SIR Jacob Rees-Mogg has accused the Prime Minister of failing to act in the interest of the nation by prioritising international law.
Speaking on GB News, he said: “To govern is to choose, and one person who chooses as he governs is Donald Trump.
“Whereas we’ve decided not to choose. We won’t say yes, we won’t say no, we won’t say stay, and we won’t say go. And this hasn’t gone down well with the American Secretary for Defence.
“Our wonderful Prime Minister has been sitting gloriously on the fence, told what to do by Lord Hermer, who hums and Hermers, I think.
“Isn’t that just so enragingly wet, so pathetically inert, inept, failing. Just listen to the words that come so painfully – so constipatedly – out of that man’s mouth. That he won’t act in the interest of our nation.
“He won’t act against a country that has sponsored terrorism around the world, that has sponsored terrorism in this country, where our security services have had to stop them killing people in the United Kingdom, have had to give protection to journalists in this country who are at threat and have been at threat from the Iranians.
“He sits there on the fence waiting for some lawyer to tell him that after due consideration, deliberation and considering all the facts in the round we can take place in defensive action.
“But if there is a serpent about to bite you, you can chop its head off. That isn’t just international law, it’s common sense. And by this appalling approach, this failed approach, he has broken the most important relationship that he had.
“He used to be known as a Trump whisperer, but no longer. Because Donald Trump, the President of the United States, thinks this is catastrophic, and Donald Trump’s not one to understate himself.
“What has he said? He said, ‘That’s probably never happened between our countries before. That is to say, this breaking of the special relationship. It sounds like he was worried about the legality…it took far too much time, far too much time.’
“That, I’m afraid, is the case, that Starmer takes too long because he’s too wet and he can’t act.
“The Leader of the Opposition thought it was contemptible; that what you have to do is put the interest of the nation first.
“What is international law? International law is politics by another name. It is diplomatic agreements. It’s old legal agreements. It is conventions and habits. And what court interprets international law? What Parliament changes international law? Legislates for international law, and what electorate votes for international law?
“There is none. In any of those cases, the courts are bogus courts, but there is no parliament and there is no electorate. There’s not even a government that determines it.
“International law is not a determinant of the powers of the King in Parliament or of His Majesty’s government. This government doesn’t like to make decisions, and when it does make decisions, it U-turns on them.
“Keir Starmer gets the worst of all worlds. On the weekends, he alienated the President of the United States, and he undermined the special relationship, and today he U-turned to upset his friends on the left.
“Failing to decide is failing to govern. To govern is to choose. And if you don’t choose, you do not govern. Keir Starmer, the Reverend Starmer, with all his pieties, is in office, but certainly not in power.”
