This timely warning to Keir Starmer could upend our justice system
The IndependentThe normalisation of women in senior positions in public life continues apace. She said: “We have a judicial system that has almost been taken for granted as the envy of the world.” And she cannily secured a headline – in The Independent at least – by recounting how an anonymous judge had to “climb onto a court roof to clear a gutter that was blocked and causing a leak”. Mahmood is only the second female lord chancellor – Liz Truss was the first, for less than a year in 2016-17 – but what is significant about Mahmood is that she appears to be an effective politician who will fight to secure decent funding for the criminal justice system. “Suggestions that the listing of riot cases speedily in the criminal courts was a consequence of government action or pressure was a false constitutional narrative,” she said. It would be easy for Starmer to assume that, just because he was a senior office-holder in the criminal justice system himself, as director of public prosecutions, everyone will assume that he will always take care to respect constitutional principle.
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