Interesting to see that Joshua Rozenberg in today’s Telegraph takes the same view as Head of Legal about the next Attorney General. It’s probably either Baroness Scotland or Lord Grabiner. Mind you, given Gordon Brown’s wooing of possibly renegade LibDems, perhaps Lord Carlile is a decent outside bet. I can’t imagine Brown ever thought of Lord Lester http://www.gooakley.com/ as a possible Attorney – much more likely as a Minijust minister in the Lords. Lord Lester has always seemed to me to believe in “human rightsism”, i.e. that both the reach and the requirements of human rights laws should be extended ever further. Just acceptable to someone like Brown in a justice minister whose policies can be held in check; much more dangerous in a legal adviser, whose advice (in spite of what many people say about Lord Goldsmith and Iraq) is not so easy to control.
I quite like the sound of Lord Head of Legal, myself. I’ll wait for the call.
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