Getting personal

Will a ‘lefty lawyer’ come under attack as the election approaches?

“The general election campaign will get personal in the new year,” the Sunday Times reported yesterday, “with the Conservatives set to attack Sir Keir Starmer’s defence of terrorists and sex offenders and Labour planning a counteroffensive against Rishi Sunak’s tax affairs.”

It listed four cases between 2000 and 2006 in which Starmer — then best known as…