Lord Richard Simon Hermer (Baron Hermer), the Labour governments’ Attorney General, compared the policies of some politicians and “some spectrums of the media” to the policies of Nazi jurist and theoretician Carl Schmitt. He refers to words by some Tories, and some in the Reform party of Nigel Farage who, he says, “claim that international law is fine as far as it goes, but can be put aside when conditions change. [This] is a claim that was made in the early 1930s by ‘realist’ jurists in Germany, most notably Carl Schmitt, whose central thesis was, in essence, the claim that state power is all that counts, not law.”