RISHI Sunak has said the “facts speak for themselves” when asked if Sir Keir Starmer was a “terrorist sympathiser”.
The PM was grilled by TalkTV's Piers Morgan over whether he would describe the Labour leader in such a way.
He has previously slammed his Opposition rival for advising the extremist organisation Hizb ut-Tahrir during his legal career.
The group was last month proscribed as a terrorist organisation and its British boss suspended as an NHS GP subsequently.
Asked by Piers if he thought Sir Keir was a “terrorist sympathiser”, Mr Sunak said: “Well I would say let the facts speak for themselves, right?
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“There he was, he was their lawyer when they were trying to resist this. We have just proscribed them because we think that is what they are. And these things speak to people’s values, right?”
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After proscribing Hizb -utTahrir last month, Mr Sunak attacked Sir Keir in the Commons - blasting: “I ban them, he invoices them.”
Labour said at the time the party leader gave advice to the radicals in a case against the German government.
Responding to the PM's remarks to Piers, a party spokesperson branded them "desperate nonsense".
They added: "Keir Starmer oversaw the first ever prosecution of senior members of Al-Qaeda, the jailing of the airline liquid bomb plotters and the deportation of countless terrorists.
“With Keir’s leadership, charge and conviction rates for sexual offences rose, victims were better supported, and the CPS was reformed.
"The Prime Minister can only dream of having such a record of serving his country.”
Piers also quizzed Mr Sunak on Abdul Wahid, who led the UK arm of Hizb ut-Tahrir and has been suspended by the NHS.
Mr Wahid previously celebrated Hamas’ October 7 attack as a “welcome punch on the nose” for Israel.
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Mr Sunak said: “I think they [the NHS] are looking into all of that and obviously the professional bodies are independent from the Government and we have been very clear about Hizb ut-Tahrir, they should be a proscribed terrorist organisation.
“We are bringing forward the legislation to do that – and again the question for Keir Starmer, he once upon a time represented Hizb ut-Tahrir.
“Actually he supported them in resisting proscription elsewhere. And that is who he was on the side of. We are trying to ban these people and he was busy trying to represent them.”
Proscribing a group under the 2000 Terrorism Act means it is an offence to belong to the organisation or express support for it.
Anyone caught supporting the proscribed group faces a maximum 14 years in prison in the most serious cases.
There are currently 79 terrorist organisations proscribed in the UK, including Hamas since 2021.
Met Police cops investigated after Hizb ut-Tahrir’s demonstration in London last October following public outcry.
Watch the full interview on Piers Morgan Uncensored's YouTube channel from 2pm and on TalkTV at 8pm
