Justice Secretary David Lammy has warned Labour MPs who rebel against his plan to scrap jury trials risk letting criminals walk free. Mr Lammy, who is bracing for a showdown with Labour MPs in the ...

Whitehall won’t fix our £1m Prince Andrew problem - COMMENT: Footing the bill to (once again) do something Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor should do himself feels like an insult when that taxpayer money ...

Angela Rayner for prime minister? For now, the jury is out - COMMENT: Thanks to David Lammy’s skill in preparing the ground, today’s Commons debate on controversial plans to restrict trial by jury ...

Labour's bid to cut jury trials has been backed by MPs in a Commons showdown. MPs voted to ditch jury trials for cases with a likely sentence of under three years in an effort to reduce backlogs in ...