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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

Jenrick and Philp put UK judges’ ‘lives at risk’ with attacks on integrity, former extremism tsar says

Lord Walney.
Lord Walney wrote to the lord chancellor and the lady chief justice to express his concerns about the intimidation of judges. Photograph: Helen Maybanks/Office of Lord Walney

The shadow cabinet ministers Robert Jenrick and Chris Philp are putting judges’ “lives at risk” by launching “ill-chosen” attacks on their integrity, the outgoing extremism tsar has said.

Lord Walney, who until last week was the Conservative-appointed watchdog on political violence, said the senior Tories were “deeply wrong” for indicating that judges were ideologically driven when enforcing the law.

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