Ben Romans

Solicitor interested in the rule of law and politics. Labour | Fabian Society 🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦

[Karl Turner MP @KarlTurnerMP]

.@RobertBuckland was the Lord Chancellor throughout Covid pandemic. He didn’t resort to doing away with jury trials because he was a recent practitioner in the criminal courts, he knew this would not cut the backlog. He was right then and he’s right now. #DefendJuryTrials

[Karl Turner MP @KarlTurnerMP]

It is not jury trials that cause the backlog. This is fundamentally wrong and actually untruthful to say that it is. @DavidLammy must know this by now?

[Karl Turner MP @KarlTurnerMP]

I suspect that I’ve forgotten more about the criminal justice system than any member of the current Justice team has ever known. They need to listen. And listen good. Doing away with juries is a terrible mistake for which we will all regret.

[Mark Hamill @MarkHamill]

#RIP dad 💔

[Wes Streeting @wesstreeting]

This is who we are as a country.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: What will be in the King's Speech tomorrow?

- Smoking ban on next generation

- Mental Health Act reform

- VAT on private schools

- Renationalising rail

- Renters reform

- Workers' rights - ban on zero hours, minimum wage same for all adults, and ban on fire and rehire

- Crime bill with new curbs on sale of knives/swords and new offences of child exploitation in order to tackle gangs

- Full conversion therapy ban

- Planning reforms - allowing building on some land currently designated as green belt, which the government says has been wrongly classified

- Shoplifting clampdown and close loophole making thefts under £200 less likely to be prosecuted

- Independent regulator of football in England

- Truancy law: Councils must track "ghost children" missing from school rolls post-Covid; parents must disclose homeschooling, with AI enhancing coordination among schools, GPs, councils, and Ofsted

- Publicly owned GB Energy

- Reform Apprenticeships Levy

- House of Lords reform to remove the right of hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords and force any member who reaches 80 years of age at the end of the Parliament to retire

- Devolution: table a "take back control" bill to fire up regions by handing further powers to local leaders

- Sex offences: new criminal offence for spiking with rape and sexual offences teams required in every police force

- Deliver Martyn's Law named after Manchester Arena bombing victim Martyn Hett - a legal requirement for venues and event organisers to put terrorism preparation plans in place

- Hillsborough Law to provide legal aid for victims of disasters or state-related deaths

- Small boats legislation to treat smugglers like terrorists

Not included:

- Ban on two-child benefit cap

- Votes at 16

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@Nigel_Farage Have they been appointed Directors as well, and if so are you going to give them shares in the Reform UK Limited

[The Secret Barrister 🦋 @BarristerSecret]

An Attorney General who is a genuine heavyweight silk with decades of experience in domestic and international public law? Somebody chosen on the basis of legal acumen and merit rather than their willingness to tell the Prime Minister whatever he wants to hear?

Well I never.

[Politics UK @PolitlcsUK]

🚨 NEW: Labour candidate Dawn Butler has released a rap video about the election

[The Spectator @spectator]

'There are serious issues at stake in this general election, and the Tories have just released nonsense figures with fake attribution and given it to newspapers who took it on trust. I’m really not sure that this will help their chances very much.'

✍️ Fraser Nelson

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@AndrewMorganRCT Congratulations

[Keir Starmer @Keir_Starmer]

Opportunities for first time buyers in every community.

New development corporations with the power to remove the blockages.

New infrastructure to support families and communities to grow. 👇

[Chris Evans MP @Chris_EvansMP]

£5.5bn of taxpayers money over 13 years and not one vehicle in service. Embarrassing and damning are words that spring to mind reading the Sheldon report on the government’s handling of AJAX. And it’s not the only project being mismanaged - 37 of 39 rated red or amber

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@RishiSunak You should have started by calling a general election as you have no mandate by your own members or by the country.

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@RishiSunak What the public want is a GE that would actually reflect the priorities of the British people

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@RhonddaBryant I was on the phone to the court a few weeks ago twice for more than hour each time

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@RhonddaBryant She should be disbarred CD 5 of the BSB rules states that CD5 You must not behave in a way which is likely to diminish the trust and confidence which the public places in you or in the profession

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@Conservatives @trussliz Honestly this is comedy gold

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@OwenJones84 Owen when the Tories were ripping themselves apart because of Brexit why weren’t ahead to the extend we are now

[Ben Romans @benromans25]

@JossSheldon @Keir_Starmer May I remind you that Wilson and Attlee were both monarchists