Jon Robins considers the impact of the snap General Election on the UK justice system
In the countdown to the Brexit election, justice issues are likely to have even less of a look in than recent elections. That’s not to say that the snap poll is not already having an impact on lawyers and indeed non-lawyers.
Ta-ra to Truss?
Newspapers on the right have been rubbing their hands with glee at the prospect of an early exit for our third non-lawyer lord chancellor after Chris Grayling and Michael Gove. Earlier last month the Daily Telegraph, before the election announcement, claimed that ‘senior government sources’ reported that cabinet ministers were piling on the pressure on Theresa May to strip Liz Truss of her role as Lord Chancellor.
A landslide win for the Conservatives on 8 June sharply increases the odds of that happening. According to The Sun, the PM is presently ‘sharpening her blade’ in anticipation of a post-election reshuffle.
Lord Thomas last month castigated Truss for her failure to stand up for the
