MORE than 800 legal figures have accused the Prime Minister and Home Secretary of endangering lawyers’ safety and undermining the rule of law through their “hostile” attacks on the profession. 

The letter, signed by three former justices of the Supreme Court, urges Boris Johnson and Priti Patel to apologise for attacking lawyers for simply “seeking to hold the government to the law.”  

In recent months, the pair have escalated abusive language against immigration solicitors, branding those upholding the rights of asylum-seekers facing deportation as “activist” lawyers.