Robert Jenrick has said Connolly should be released.A former Tory minister has called for Robert Jenrick to be sacked for defending a Conservative councillor’s wife jailed for inciting racial hatred.Lucy Connolly called for “mass deportation now” amid false rumours that an illegal immigrant had murdered three young girls at a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in Southport.“Set fire to all the fucking hotels full of the bastards for all I care, while you’re at it take the treacherous government and all the politicians with them,” Connolly posted on X.“I feel physically sick knowing what these families will now have to endure. If that makes me racist so be it.”She eventually deleted the post later the same day, but was jailed for 31 months after pleading guilty to inciting racial hatred.Her appeal against the sentence was rejected last week, prompting fresh complaints from right-wingers, who say it shows free speech is under attack in the UK.Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, raised her case in the House of Commons yesterday as he attacked government plans to release some inmates early sue to proson overcrowding.In a post on X, he said: “The Justice Secretary released Lawson Natty early, who supplied a machete used to kill a
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