RICHARD KAY: How Starmer's closest legal buddy, who netted share of £8million from Chagos surrender, learned his courtroom tricks from spymaster Le Carre in his local pub

It is hard to imagine the costly and symbolic legal case that has led to Britain's 'surrender' of the Chagos Islands without the earnestly reassuring face of human rights lawyer Philippe Sands.


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