As well as recording today’s speeches, I also spoke to some of the people who came on today’s “Grayling Day” demonstration in London against legal aid cuts.

Subashini Nathan volunteers for Bail for Immigration Detainees and the Joint Council for the Welfare of Immigrants.

It’s been quite a journey, working with voluntary organisations and charities

she said, and told me about he experience of seeing

those that are in dire poverty … not being able to put forward a defence.

She says it’s

despicable

that the government won’t fund for others the sort of legal support it pays for for itself.

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