Putting pressure on an independent investigator to water down a report to deliver a desired outcome is the classic definition of corruption pure and simple and if true makes the PM entirely unfit for public office

Boris. I had to apologise to a distraught rape complainant that the trial of her alleged rapists, fixed for months was cancelled for at least 6 months due to no Court space. The failure of the justice system is you and your government not lefty lawyers. Take responsibility

The Attorney General continues to plumb new depths of unsuitability for office.

An entirely reasonable question by Ellie Reeves is met by a word soup of ignorance and frothing nationalism.

Hello Tom Hunt MP. As you clearly have an interest in the criminal justice system, can I ask:

🔷When did you last attend a Crown Court?
🔷What “pitiful” sentences did you witness?
🔷Did sentencing really strike you as the most pressing issue facing the criminal justice system?

Best tweet of the day IMHO

Absolutely spot on.

I drove 30 miles to a beauty spot to see if I was well enough to drive. Oh give over

Best Tweet ever

If everyone who has ever been grateful for the NHS followed and retweeted we would reach a million by midnight

It takes just one click and your support would mean a lot

I’m shocked. Boris Johnson’s priority is not the NHS or regenerating the wastelands that were public services. It’s a slightly faster choo choo train that can get him to Birmingham a little quicker

As Boris Johnson asks the EU to help save UK car manufacturing by not imposing tariffs or quotas, many can’t help but wonder if only there was some sort of Single Market or Customs Union that could’ve helped prevent it.

Angela Rayner. As ever it’s a question of trust

Leaving aside the 3 courts where the data is unclear, 130 out of 453 available criminal court rooms on Monday are not sitting. That is 29%. Where waiting times for trials ever lengthen and where judges report further cuts to their allocation, that is surely not good enough.

I am told that last Monday, the MoJ quietly announced there would be 82,300 sitting days for 2019/2020, a 16% cut from this year’s (awful) 97,400. In 2015 it was 113,966. Ministry of Justice can you please confirm these figures? If this is right, it is very bad news indeed.

Shout out to the security at an unnamed London Crown Court.

They let me, a police officer, into court with a steel telescopic baton, a section 5 firearm and carrying a machete in an evidence bag, but confiscated my glass bottle of Gaviscon “because it could be used as a weapon”

'As an NHS palliative care doctor, the cost of Boris Johnson's £2.1bn no-deal preparations can be measured in lost opportunities to help my patients, because this government cares less about them than glossy leaflets.'

Sobering piece from Dr Rachel Clarke huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/no-deal-…

The magic money tree is back and Leave’s big con is saving us billions

The biggest irony about Tommy Robinson is that he names himself after a black slave in literature, falsely accused of rape by a white woman and prevented from having a fair trial The Secret Barrister

This is the current front runner to be our next PM. 🤦‍♀️

#ToryLeadershipContest #Boris