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Simon, you missed the point. Six months of ineptitude and incompetence by the MOJ and then a two week extension for "Quality Assurance".

You can almost write Gove's speech starting with "we have the most expensive legal aid systems in the world..." and ending with "we recognise that there was the potential for some inconsistencies in the tender process but through our thorough quality assurance process carried out over the last two weeks these have all been ironed these out."

Don't raise your hopes up as we are only talking about the jobs of Duty Solicitors and their ancilliary workers jobs here, not steelworkers from Redcar.

Gove and the MOJ aren't interested in whether their tender process was flawed or not and / or any injustice that this may cause to anyone directly or indirectly.