Justice secretary expected to pull back from plans to reserve jury trials from only the most serious cases
The former deputy prime minister Angela Rayner will lay an amendment on Wednesday to speed up the workers rights’ bill, after “considerable anger” that unelected Lords forced the watering down of day-one rights, Jessica Elgot and Pippa Crerar report.
Twelve more prisoners have been mistakenly freed in the past month and two are still at large, David Lammy has said.
I’m not going to give details of those cases, because these are operational decisions made by the police, and you’ll understand if they’re about to arrest somebody they don’t want me to blow the cover.
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Author : Andrew Sparrow
Publish date : 2025-12-02 13:42:00
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