Making the point: Lord Faulks quits in protest over Truss appointment as Lord Chancellor

Conservative peer Lord Faulks QC has quit as Minister of State for Justice after Liz Truss became the third consecutive non-lawyer to be made Lord Chancellor.

While the appointment has been lauded in some quarters for breaking an 800-year run of male Lord Chancellors, new UK prime minister Theresa May’s move to replace Westminster heavyweight Michael Gove with such a junior minister has provoked fears of further government mishandling of the justice brief.

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