Keir Starmer and David Lammy are now both under pressure after another prisoner was accidentally released.

Keir Starmer and David Lammy “ought to be ashamed” of the government’s plans to scrap most jury trials, a rebel Labour MP has said.

Karl Turner slammed the “ludicrous” policy amid a growing backbench rebellion.

Nearly 40 Labour MPs have so far signed a letter to the prime minister urging the government to think again.

But Turner, the MP for East Hull and also a trained lawyer, said that could rise to more than 80 – enough to potentially block the policy from going ahead.

Under the government plans, jury trials will be scrapped for crimes that carry a likely sentence of less than three years.

Those cases will be heard by a lone judge in a newly-created Crown........

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