Sarah Sackman

We are at the King Edward VII Memorial Hall, which was opened in 1913 by Viscount Villiers, who was senior steward of the Jockey Club, making Newmarket one of the first towns in the country to have a permanent memorial to the King.

Joining me here is Sarah Sackman, the Labour MP for Finchley and Golders Green, and a Justice Minister who's responsible for courts and legal services.

Sarah is a King's Counsel.

She started as a lawyer, volunteering on housing cases, then practiced as a barrister in public law, specializing in planning and the environment.

But I'm a bit worried, I'm not going to blame it all on this government, but that successive governments have made it more likely, more risky that that will happen because we are in danger of becoming a kind of spending all our money on the welfare state with actually safety and security having been deprioritised for decades now.

So the chance that we will have to tuck into our bag of twiglets sadly has gone up.

Sarah Sackman, what do you say to that? I mean, the Prime Minister himself did say, and it's been oft repeated since in the House of Commons, that national security can't come at the expense of social security.

Now he's urging us all to stockpile water and tinned goods.

And Jake Richards promised there'd be 14,000 more places by 2031, and more criminals behind bars at the end of this parliament.

Now the courts minister has confirmed a significant scaling back of plans to restrict the right to a jury trial in England and Wales.

The partial U-turn was among a number of government amendments to the Courts and Tribunals Bill, which has now completed its final stages in the Commons.

Ewan Murray reports.

But it prompted an outcry from a number of Labour backbenchers who, along with opposition MPs, said it would erode a fundamental right dating back centuries.

Andy Burnham suggested he would rethink the plans shortly after taking office.

The courts minister, Sarah Sackman, said he had listened carefully to concerns.

We've heard that strength of feeling, and we've acted.