Labour broke the courts by underfunding them, and now wants to use that damage to strip one of the public’s last checks on state power. Right, so Keir Starmer’s government is trying to cut jury trial rights, and the first thing to ask is who gets the better deal once ordinary people start getting pushed out of the room. Because this bill would take a whole range of criminal cases away from juries and put many of them before a judge sitting alone, which is a very different room and they know it. And it doesn’t seem unreasonable to me to ask about those pushing these reforms such as they are, which is being met with such dramatic outcry either. Sarah Sackman, the courts minister helping front this, has declared membership of the Jewish Labour Movement and has been reported as having worked at Israel’s Supreme Court in Jerusalem. David Lammy, the Ju ...