The justice secretary’s astonishing hypocrisy is part of a shameless volte-face.
Life, as the ancient sage Ferris Bueller said, moves pretty fast. But sometimes the brass-necked hypocrisy comes at such speed that the head spins. Which brings us to this week’s subject: the justice secretary, David Lammy, and his concern for victims of rape. As you have probably heard, Lammy believes the way to reduce the absurdly long time it takes for cases to come to court is to scrap jury trials for less serious offences.
