Lord Walney: senior Tories ‘deeply wrong’ for suggesting judges are ideologically driven when enforcing the law

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 are “deeply wrong” for indicating that judges are ideologically driven when enforcing the law.