MPs just voted on a motion to remove private schools' £1,700,000,000 tax break.
That could pay for free school meals for *all* primary school pupils almost twice over.
But Tory MPs voted it down, choosing to protect elite private schools, not improve opportunities for all kids.
I prosecute these cases, and we are seeing this more and more.
It is because of @DominicRaab and his colleagues’ refusal to fund criminal justice.
A criminal justice system which fails its citizens on such a basic level is no system of justice at all.
The liar @BorisJohnson lying again on #r4today, falsely blaming “the defence” for the chronic delays in criminal justice.
The delays are not caused by the defence.
Nor by Covid.
They have been caused by this government’s savage cuts to every part of the criminal justice system
The CPS did not cut 21,000 police officers.
The CPS did not choose to have its budget cut by £500m.
The CPS did not choose to lose a quarter of its staff.
The CPS did not choose to starve the courts and cause a record backlog.
The politicians that Andrew supports did that.
Boris Johnson “gets tough” on burglars.
The burglary I prosecuted this week was from 2018. The trial is Summer 2022.
All because @BorisJohnson and his colleagues defunded the criminal justice system.
There’s never been a better time to be a criminal.
MPs just voted on the Tories' new NHS Bill.
It extends NHS privatisation, opens the floodgates to cronyism, & incentivises cuts & closures. It's really an NHS Corporate Takeover Bill.
I voted against it, but Tory MPs voted it through. I'll keep fighting for our NHS 👊🏽
Another big fall in Covid cases today to 1626 giving a chance of meeting someone with symptomatic disease of one in 1600 and less than that in many parts of the U.K. thanks for logging !