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

Richard Hermer aims 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 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.