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The rot started with Blair and his politicisation of the office of Lord Chancellor, so that a once respected office became diminished by an unqualified zealot playing games with, and then damaging a previously revered justice system.

The Lord Chancellor's former independence reflected the critical role that the administration of justice once played in our democracy.

The succession of politically driven Lord Chancellors of recent years are poor relations to the equivalent law officers in the USA. You only have to think of the pioneering efforts of the late great Robert Kennedy to see how low the office of Lord Chancellor has sunk.