UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer has chosen a chief government legal adviser who previously assessed that a Conservative bill targeting the Palestinian-led boycott movement against Israel would hinder free speech. Attorney General Richard Hermer, who will attend cabinet, is not currently a lawmaker and will be appointed as a member of the House of Lords, the UK’s upper chamber. The human rights lawyer provided Labour with a legal opinion, published last year, on the former Conservative government’s anti-boycott bill, saying it would curtail freedom of speech. “This very poorly drafted bill is li…