Jenrick Slams Mahmood Over Judicial Impartiality – Guido Fawkes

Jenrick Slams Mahmood Over Judicial Impartiality

Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick isn’t resting on his laurels following his victory in getting the Home Office to publish migrant crime data. In the Commons this afternoon he grilled Shabana Mahmood over judicial impartiality. Jenrick highlighted the case of Greg Ó Ceallaigh KC, a serving immigration judge, who allegedly declared the Tories “need to be dealt with as you would deal with the Nazis, cancer or lava.” Jenrick asked if Mahmood thought such comments were compatible with impartiality from the bench. Her response was a shrug and a dodge:

“There is a well placed mechanism for making a complaint to the judicial complaints office. If he wishes to make a complaint he can do so. What I’m not going to do is indulge in personal effectively doxing of judges. Not when judges are simply doing their job of applying the law.”

Jenrick went on to slam the judicial appointments commission:

“Her commission has failed to conduct the most basic checks on potential judges either out of sheer incompetence or out of sympathy with their hard-left open borders views. The commission is broken and is bringing the independence of the judiciary into disrepute. How much longer will it take for the Justice Secretary to act and to remove the chair of this commission from her position and defend the independence and reputation of the judiciary?”

Jenrick proving to be a thorn in Labour’s side…