05/09/2026
Jenrick is now a senior member of Reform UK who has moved even further to the right than he was positioning himself last October at the tory party conference.
Yesterday, his party leader Nigel Farage held his keynote speech of the Reform UK Conference in Birmingham in which he told delegates "We don't want the courts striking down, do we, the will of the people," he said... Parliament makes the law, judges interpret the law. We will do whatever it takes, and perhaps have to consider how judicial appointments work in the future."
However, embattled Reform UK Leader Nigel Farage said nothing about corporate interests who pay for their interests to be put ahead of the "will of the people".
Despite Farage trying to position his party as being ready for government and the theme of the conference being around what Labour would do in its first 100 days it seems very thin on substance other than shouting about boat crossing on the Channel. He told the Conference that his party has a team of spokespeople with front line experience and "There are more big jobs to fill, and I'm looking and working on defence, health, and the other areas."
Despite Reform UK winning hundreds of Council seats across the UK in 2025 and adding to that number in 2026 and having 8 MPs in Parliament as well as talking about being the next party to form a government, Reform do not have any policies on health and social care despite social care funding accounting for the majority of many local authorities budgets.
However, many Reform UK Councillors have stepped down because they didn't understand their roles or how much work it would involve and have often done no preparation. The leader of Kirklees Council is a good example of this where the Council has been unable to do ordinary business as the Leader does not understand how amendments or voting works in a Full Council meeting.
This picture should cause alarm bells to be ringing.
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick holds up a judges wig - holding it as if it was a puppet indiciating that the judges will be a puppet of the government should he get the chance.
Before him Chris Philp spoke about 'lefty lawyers' basically not allowing the UK to act unlawfully and Jenrick followed this up with one of the many attacks on the European Convention of Human Rights that came today because the EHCR is now the enemy that needs to be attacked - but no-one is sure why. It used to be the EU and now its the EHCR. But to be clear they are not linked.
What Jenrick is threatening is to remove the seperation of powers which means the Executive (aka Prime Minister and the cabinet), the Judiciary (aka judges) and the Legislative (aka Parliament) will no longer be able to operate free of fear of interference from each other.
The principle of separation of powers has existed since around 1911 and whilst its never been an easy truce its an important and vital part our constitution - hence why the tories made it into legislation when they were last in government.
Jenrick is depserate for attention and he knows his party is fighting for relevance and he is positioning himself as a potential leader by trying to say the most outrageous things possible to please the right wing of the tory party who think anything left of Mussolini is a socialist marxist eutopia.
