BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves declines to commit to extending 5p fuel duty cut amid concerns about rising fuel prices due to conflict in Iran
"Of course we keep these things under review. But if you look at petrol prices oil prices today, they're 24% lower than they were yesterday," she said
More than 3,200 lawyers including 300 top barristers and retired judges have called on the government to drop a plan to abolish some jury trials
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Ahead of the Second Reading of the Courts and Tribunals Bill, Post Office Horizon victim Jo Hamilton OBE has written to David Lammy expressing her opposition to the Government’s plans to curtail the right to trial by jury
BREAKING: “What we call 'minor offences', for most people would have a major impact on their lives"
Bolton MP Yasmin Qureshi on why she will not be voting for the Government's reforms to the justice system today, as they would reduce the number of jury trials👏
Rethink plans for jury trials, thousands of lawyers tell Starmer
Ministers are being warned their plans will save less than 2% of court time
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Plans to curtail the number of jury trials in England and Wales have been described as “unpopular, untested and poorly evidenced” by thousands of lawyers who have written to the prime minister
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Justice Secretary David Lammy compares a judge's ability to jail you for three years to ‘scraping your knee’.
Every Labour MP will today have the opportunity to step up and tell him he’s wrong. Will they remember why they became Labour MPs?
This is spot on from Sonia Sodha
Scrapping jury trials won’t speed up justice
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“Labour was built on the belief that justice must never belong only to the powerful. Today MPs vote on restricting jury trials. For Labour MPs it’s a test of principle. The poorest & most marginalised depend on juries. Today we’ll see who remembers why they came into politics”
Rob Rinder
“Labour was built on the belief that justice must never belong only to the powerful. Today MPs vote on restricting jury trials. For Labour MPs it’s a test of principle. The poorest & most marginalised depend on juries. Today we’ll see who remembers why they came into politics”
Rob Rinder
Thousands of lawyers urge Keir Starmer to rethink plans to cut jury trials
Government facing prospect of most serious backbench revolt yet over proposals for England and Wales
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...
The Prime Minister and his Justice Secretary may think a 3 year prison Sentence is little more than a “scrapped knee” but I doubt the majority of people will agree
“We’ve heard from the charity APPEAL in the last few hours who argue more cases being heard by just a judge will increase the number of miscarriages of justice because judges tend to be privately educated and white”
"The PM is facing one of the biggest rebellions since coming to power today if dozens of MPs vote against plans to scale back jury trials"
Keir Starmer wants to undermine and restrict a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy - a shameful act of constitutional vandalism for which he has no mandate.
Labour MPs must see through his outrageously dishonest propaganda pieces and VOTE AGAINST it
Rethink plans for jury trials, thousands of lawyers tell Starmer
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Keir Starmer faces one of his biggest rebellions over jury trial cuts and rightly so.
Labour MPs must see through his outrageously dishonest propaganda pieces and VOTE AGAINST this shameful constitutional vandalism
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The government's plans to reform the special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) system in England will "strip away" legal protections for children and young people needing support, a charity has warned
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BREAKING: MPs have rejected a proposed ban on social media for under-16s. The Commons voted 307 to 173, with a majority of 134, against the age-limit
The Justice Secretary - a former barrister - suggesting that being wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned for 3 years is just like “scraping your knee” in order to justify undermining and restricting a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy is absurd, embarrassing and shameful
BREAKING: @andyburnham.bsky.social says the Duchy of Lancaster is treating people in the north as “second-class citizens” after failing to support the clean-up of a huge illegal waste dump near Wigan
An investigation by Ch 4 News uncovered that the estate of King Charles is connected to the site
BREAKING: Oil prices in FREEFALL to $85 a barrel after remarks from President Trump to CBS that the “war is very complete, pretty much…very far ahead” of 4-5 week schedule also US stock market erasing all losses
…then bounces back up to $90 - still below the Friday close, and down from $119.50 peak
This is shocking. Labour lawyers ‘blocked’ from briefing MPs on jury trials overhaul before vote. The Prime Minister is completely out of control on this. MPs must come together and stop him from undermining & restricting a fundamental cornerstone of our democracy
www.theguardian.com/law/2026/mar...
Angela Rayner is among those who could vote against the plan to end the right to a jury trial for some defendants 👏
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The “unprincipled, counter-productive and shameful constitutional vandalism to trial by jury” that Keir Starmer is now seeking to push through Parliament “without proper scrutiny”
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“How a Labour Government Is Dismantling Eight Centuries of Justice, One Clause at a Time”
labourheartlands.com/trial-by-jury/
BREAKING: Chancellor Rachel Reeves gives an update on the economy amid Iran war.
says the situation in Iran is "likely to put upward pressure on inflation".
adds she is ready to support release of International Energy Agency oil reserves after meeting with G7 finance ministers.
Lammy braced for showdown with Labour MPs over plan to limit jury trials
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Rachel Reeves tells MPs she'll take "necessary decisions" to help families with cost of living as result of economic impact of Iran crisis.
chancellor warns prices already being pushed up: "The movements that we have already seen are likely to put upward pressure on inflation in the coming months"
