Overcrowding and understaffing cost prisoners’ lives — but Liz Truss refuses to address either
If Liz Truss won’t commit to cutting prisoner numbers, she must reverse staffing cuts
If Liz Truss won’t commit to cutting prisoner numbers, she must reverse staffing cuts
Gove would start three wars at once, while May is ‘a bloody difficult woman’, said Clarke
With David Miliband, the man once tipped to lead the Labour Party, resigning from frontline politics to take up a job in America, Left Foot Forward has looked at five leaders who came close but never quite made it to the top.
Harriet Williams looks at the reality of life as one of Ken Clarke’s ‘fat cat legal aid lawyers’.
Mike Morgan-Giles reports on government plans for ‘secret courts’, and the use of secret evidence, on the grounds of “national security”.
At the Liberal Democrat Spring Conference party members voted overwhelmingly against Ken Clarke and Lord McNally’s plans to cut legal aid by £350 million.
Shadow justice secretary Sadiq Khan calls on Secretary of State Ken Clarke to listen to the House of Lords and abandon his proposed legal aid cuts.
Jonny Mulligan of the Sound Off for Justice campaign reports on the latest House of Lords defeats for the government in the LASPO bill over legal aid cuts.
Left Foot Forward looks at the legal aid cuts, and the costs to services, people and the taxpayer of the Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill.
On the legal aid cuts and LASPO bill, the real problem Ken Clarke has is his story savings figures simply do not stack up and peers from all sides know it.