Geoffrey Cox

It matters because the accused's rights are at stake, the accused's liberty is at stake, and that's why we limit the time, the power of magistrates on sentencing in the way that we do in this England, this system in England and Wales.

The Conservative former Attorney General, Sir Geoffrey Cox, agreed, suggesting that voting for the change would be an egregious act.

It's a bit like asking us to be grateful to the crocodile who leaves us our head after it's taken our legs.

[laughing] The reality is that the right of election of trial by jury, uh, is at the very heart of the right itself.

I mean, it is, in fact, the least shocking thing we've heard about the British Virgin Islands this year.

You'll recall that Tory MP Sir Geoffrey Cox...

Sir Geoffrey Cox! That is...

I know I do that noise every time I do a Lord or a Sir, but that is actually what he sounds like.

He sounds...

But a bit of cheerfulness.

I remember the year after Theresa May's disastrous disastrous conference and you know poor woman because losing her voice and the set collapsing and the pitch invasion weren't really her fault but do you remember she came out to Dancing Queen and there was just a sense of cheerfulness and bounce about it and she had the wonderful Geoffrey Cox as her warm up act a man who should be doing audio books for children and so you know we need a warm up act who's going to really put some cheerfulness and then get into the sort of Fair enough.

We're going to be fun, but we are going to be statesmanlike as well.

What's your walk-on music then, Patrick? What would you