Tories: 'Undermining our fundamental freedoms' is wrong step

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Conservative Shadow Chancellor Sir Mel Stride has described the government's plans to reform the courts, including removing jury trials for some cases, as an "undermining of our fundamental freedoms" that have been in place since the Magna Carta as a "very serious step and a wrong step". Report by Ketchs. Like us on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/itn and follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/itn

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00:00So I think that undermining of our fundamental freedoms to a jury trial that has been there for many centuries,

00:05going back to Magna Carta in 1215, is a very serious step, and the wrong step.

00:12And I think there is an alternative. Nobody wants to see backlogs at the level they are at the moment.

00:17But this is a government that in the budget, of course, has spent 16 billion extra on benefits.

00:22I think it would be much better to put more resource into speeding up the court process to get that backlog down,

00:27rather than undermining our freedoms and jury trial.

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