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‘Will the real David Lammy please stand up!’ Robert Jenrick brutally slaps down Justice Secretary over plans to scrap juries

by 02/12/2025
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Robert Jenrick has brutally slapped down the Justice Secretary over his plans to scrap juries for sentences less than three years.

Mr Jenrick gave a ferocious performance in the House of Commons on Tuesday, with the Shadow Justice Secretary bestowing a new nickname on the Deputy Prime Minister: “Lammy Dodger”.

“Does this Government have no shame?” he spat across the despatch box, in a scathing attack on the Justice Secretary.

Mr Jenrick raged: “His past is catching up with him, because the best opponent of the Justice Secretary’s plans to curb jury trials is the Justice Secretary himself.

“In 2020 he said, ‘Criminal trials without juries are a bad idea. You do not fix the backlog with trials that are widely perceived as unfair’ In 2017, in his report into prejudice in the criminal justice system, he found juries, and I quote, ‘act as a filter for prejudice’.

“But now he’s become Justice Secretary, he’s scrapping the very institution he once lauded. Which is it?

“Will the real David Lammy please stand up!”

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