Starmer and the Cabinet are now fawning over Trump as the state visit kicks off. It’s quite a spectacle given how they behaved in Trump’s first term. Guido is old enough to remember when several members of the current Cabinet signed an Early Day Motion trying to block Trump from setting foot in Parliament entirely in 2017. Including:
A few reminders of their past venom: Lammy called Trump a “neo-Nazi-sympathising sociopath” back in 2017. Cooper marched to “take a stand against Donald Trump” in 2018. Even Starmer tweeted: “Humanity and dignity. Two words not understood by President Trump.” Looks like it’s just Sadiq Khan carrying that torch now…
David Lammy was asked on Times Radio if scrapping jury trials would eliminate the court backlog by the next election:
“It won’t be eliminated by the next election. That’s impossible. We just have 84 Crown courts across our country and 500 courtrooms.”