Jenrick: Lammy is 'best opponent' for his own reforms

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Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick declares David Lammy "the best opponent" of his own plans to remove jury trials from certain cases. The Tory frontbencher uses previous statements that the Justice Secretary had made to joke "will the real David Lammy please stand up". 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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00:00And his past is catching up with him because the best opponent of the Justice

00:05Secretary's plans to curb jury trials is the Justice Secretary himself. In 2020 he

00:13said criminal trials without juries are a bad idea. You don't fix the backlog

00:22with trials that are widely perceived as unfair. In 2017 in his report into

00:31prejudice in the criminal justice system he found juries and I quote act as a

00:36filter for prejudice. But now he's become Justice Secretary he's scrapping the very

00:43institution he wants lauded. Which is it? Will the real David Lammy please stand up?

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