Keir Starmer urged to defend lawyers after Tories’ ‘targeted campaign’

Exclusive: Martin Forde KC says fellow professionals are bewildered' at silence over case of Jacqueline McKenzie

Keir Starmer is facing calls to defend the legal profession against government attacks on lefty lawyers", amid further concerns for the safety of an immigration solicitor subjected to a targeted campaign" by the Conservative party.

Martin Forde KC, the senior lawyer commissioned by Starmer to investigate the Labour party's culture, said legal professionals from across the political spectrum had expressed their bewilderment that the Labour leader had not said anything after such personal attacks, even after former Conservative law officers criticised the political rhetoric aimed at lefty lawyers" on Friday.