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Problem is that to now revert to a lawyer Lord Chancellor would seem like back-tracking in response to constant criticism from the legal professions, so this is really no great surprise.

This is what our politics has become: not so much about doing the right thing as not being shown to have done the wrong thing. And above all - save face.

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