Robert Jenrick steals the limelight at Tory conference

It is day three of Conservative Party conference and the punchiest speech of the event has just been made. Robert Jenrick, the heat-seeking missile of the Tory front bench, has just delivered another howitzer aimed squarely at Britain’s judiciary. Brandishing a judge’s wig, he addressed the conference faithful with the vim and vigour that have seen him soar to the top of the ConservativeHome shadow cabinet league table. Jenrick’s twenty-minute address – the last before Kemi Badenoch’s big speech tomorrow – was a full throttle, studs-up attack on what he calls ‘activist’ judges. He took aim at the ‘dozens of judges’ he claims to have uncovered with ‘ties to open borders charities’, partisan social media posts and ‘who’ve spent their careers fighting to keep illegal migrants in this countr