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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Eleni Courea Political correspondent

Populist threat to rule of law a danger to UK working class, says attorney general

Richard Hermer in Downing Street
Richard Hermer said: ‘If your fundamental rights are taken away, it is working-class people who will pay the price.’ Photograph: Wiktor Szymanowicz/Future Publishing/Getty Images

Rightwing populists threaten working-class people’s protections under the rule of law, the attorney general has said in his most political intervention yet.

In a criticism directed squarely at Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick, Richard Hermer said populist politicians posed a threat to the everyday protectionsafforded to people who used the legal system and the courts to right significant wrongs.

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