Johnson and Patel are baiting lawyers to distract from the real threat to our freedoms | Simon Jenkins

Lawyers should ignore No 10’s taunts and instead gird their loins to campaign in favour of judicial review

Eight hundred legal eagles are up in arms. They are furious with Boris Johnson and Priti Patel, accusing them of being “lefty lawyers” and “do-gooders”, seeking to leave the “whole” criminal justice system “hamstrung”. At this month’s Tory party conference, the two politicians accused them in one voice of indefensibly exploiting a “broken” immigration appeal system in the interest of their c...