Chris Grayling
Legal aid changes will allow abuses of power by public authorities against the most vulnerable
Last week justice secretary Chris Grayling withdrew his proposal to deny those accused in the criminal courts and reliant on legal aid the right to choose who will represent them.
With our current prison system, Chris Grayling’s talk of ‘purposeful activity’ is meaningless
Too many prisons act like bad parents. Rather than doing anything productive with those in their care, it’s a lot less effort to simply plonk them in front of the TV to veg out.
Comment: why is outsourcing wrong?
With the memory of the G4S debacle at the beginning of the summer still sore, today’s news that the government […]
Try as he may, Chris Grayling can’t make prison cuts without cutting prison numbers
Efforts by the coalition to reduce expenditure on prisons are fraught with problems, including, potentially, from the ever-reliable G4S.
Does Grayling believe in the Right to Life? The Prohibition of Torture? Of Slavery?
In an interview with ConservativeHome, Chris Grayling reaffirms worries about the Tory party stance on human rights, with talk of quitting the ECHR.
The government’s Work Programme (still) isn’t working
New ONS figures reveal that the number of long-term unemployed has more than doubled since May 2010: a new milestone in the Work Programme's litany of failure.