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Lord Chief Justice Ian Burnett, the judge that will soon decide Julian Assange\u2019s fate, is a close personal friend of Sir Alan Duncan, who as foreign minister arranged Assange\u2019s eviction from the Ecuadorian embassy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The two have known each other since their student days at Oxford in the 1970s, when Duncan called Burnett \u201cthe Judge\u201d. Burnett and his wife attended Duncan\u2019s birthday dinner at a members-only London club in 2017, when Burnett was a judge at the court of appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now the most powerful judge in England and Wales, Burnett will soon rule on Assange\u2019s extradition case. The founder of WikiLeaks faces life imprisonment in the US. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his recently published diaries, In The Thick of It<\/em><\/a>, Duncan wrote in July 2017: \u201cMy good friend and Oxford contemporary Ian Burnett is announced as the next Lord Chief Justice.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He continued: \u201cAt Oxford we always called him \u2018the Judge\u2019 and they always called me \u2018Prime Minister\u2019, but Ian\u2019s the one who\u2019s got there.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In an emailed response to Declassified<\/em>, Lord Chief Justice Burnett confirmed he and Duncan have been \u201cfriends since university days\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duncan studied<\/a> politics and economics at St John\u2019s College, Oxford from 1976-79, while Burnett studied<\/a> jurisprudence at Pembroke College in the same period.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAt Oxford we always called him \u2018the Judge\u2019 and they always called me \u2018Prime Minister\u2019”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

“Miserable little worm<\/strong>” <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Duncan\u2019s diaries also show that as foreign minister he spoke privately to Lord Chief Justice Burnett in May 2019, a conversation that was not logged<\/a> in government records. Burnett briefed him on a dinner he\u2019d had with then prime minister Theresa May two days before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But Duncan told Declassified<\/em>: \u201cThere was nothing that was required to be \u2018logged in government records\u2019.\u201d He and Burnett both said nothing related to their roles as a minister or judge was discussed. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duncan served<\/a> as foreign minister for Europe and the Americas from 2016-19. He was the key<\/a> official in the UK government campaign<\/a> to force Assange from the embassy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As minister, Duncan did not hide his opposition to Julian Assange, calling<\/a> him a \u201cmiserable little worm\u201d in parliament in March 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his diaries, Duncan refers<\/a> to the \u201csupposed human rights of Julian Assange\u201d. He admits to arranging a Daily Mail<\/em> hit piece<\/a> on Assange that was published the day after the journalist\u2019s arrest in April 2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duncan watched UK police pulling the WikiLeaks publisher from the Ecuadorian embassy via a live-feed<\/a> in the Operations Room at the top of the Foreign Office. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He later admitted<\/a> he was \u201ctrying to keep the smirk off [his] face\u201d, and hosted drinks at his parliamentary office for the team involved in the eviction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Duncan then flew to Ecuador to meet President Len\u00edn Moreno in order to \u201csay thank you\u201d for handing over Assange. Duncan reported<\/a> he gave Moreno \u201ca beautiful porcelain plate from the Buckingham Palace gift shop.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJob done,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n\n\n

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\u201cGenerous present\u201d<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Duncan\u2019s diaries also highlight a birthday dinner held for him in June 2017 that was attended by Burnett and his wife. The dinner, held at the private Beefsteak club in London the day before the general election, was a \u201cgenerous present from David Ross\u201d, Duncan noted. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ross, a businessman and co-founder of Carphone Warehouse, has funded<\/a> an array of Conservative MPs, including Duncan, and gave the Conservative Party \u00a3250,000<\/a> to fight the 2019 election. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other guests included the Syrian-Saudi billionaire businessman Wafic Sa\u00efd. Long close<\/a> to the Saudi royal family, Sa\u00efd helped<\/a> negotiate the massive UK-Saudi arms deal known as al-Yamamah<\/em> in the 1980s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sa\u00efd\u2019s wife, Rosemary, who was also in attendance, is another major donor<\/a> to the Conservative Party and has funded Boris Johnson. She was a guest<\/a> at David Cameron\u2019s \u201cLeader\u2019s Group\u201d meetings of key party donors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Other attendees at Duncan\u2019s birthday dinner included William Hague, Duncan\u2019s close colleague and friend, who was foreign secretary when the UK decided<\/a> not to recognise the asylum granted to Assange by the Ecuadorian government. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also present was Salma Shah, an adviser to Sajid Javid when, as home secretary, he controversially<\/a> certified the initial US extradition request for Assange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sir Alan Duncan and Lord Chief Justice Burnett both told Declassified<\/em> they have never discussed the Julian Assange case with each other. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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