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This is the best summary I could come up with:
Keir Starmer is facing calls to defend the legal profession against government attacks on “lefty lawyers”, amid further concerns for the safety of an immigration solicitor subjected to a “targeted campaign” by the Conservative party.
The dossier prompted Nick Vineall KC, the chair of the Bar Council, and Lubna Shuja, the president of the Law Society, to make a rare joint statement condemning the Tories’ behaviour in sending out the document titled “Revealed: senior Labour adviser is lefty lawyer blocking Rwanda deportations”.
The Labour leader worked as the director of public prosecutions before he won a selection battle for the Holborn and St Pancras seat that was vacated by Frank Dobson after 34 years.
He added: “Alex Chalk’s failure to denounce this clearly shows the problem of judges and lawyers not having an independent lord chancellor rather than subsuming the role into the Ministry of Justice.”
Two days after the attacks went public I received a message from the party chair and [the] shadow women and equalities minister, Anneliese Dodds, who was apologetic as she’d been on holiday.”
He said: “It’s also depressing that the Conservatives’ false rhetoric around asylum seekers’ requirement to stay in France instead of seeking safety in this country, and people being economic migrants is being adopted by the public when the former is not the law and the latter is mainly untrue.
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You're a very good bot but this summary jumps between sources a bit confusingly. The penultimate paragraph is a quote from Jacqueline McKenzie, the targeted lawyer, sandwiched between two quotes from Martin Forde.
But you are a very good bot and I'm only trying to help you be an even better bot, should you wish to expand your horizons.