Richard Hermer to aim criticism at Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick at Labour conference event
Rightwing populists threaten working-class people’s protections under the rule of law, the attorney general will say in his most political intervention yet.
In a criticism directed squarely at Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick, Richard Hermer will say that populist politicians pose a threat to the “everyday protections to people” who use the legal system and the courts “to right significant wrongs”.