So, as anticipated, our new prime minister has favoured punishing disloyalty over rewarding competence and sent Michael Gove and his ambitious, compassionate prison reforms to the naughty back benches. Yesterday morning (July 14) brought a transfer-deadline-day-style frenzy to Legal Twitter, anticipation and trepidation converging as rumours and supposition threw up name after name as possible new secretary of state for justice and Lord Chancellor.
All it needed was Theresa May leaning out of her Range Rover window teasing Sky Sports with a, ‘Well, we’ve got a little bit goin’ on ‘ere and there, but who knows?’
