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Hello, I'm Sean Curran, and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Monday the 8th of December,

when the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick said plans to restrict the right to trial by jury wouldn't help rape victims facing delays.

If the government wants to make a major change to our constitution, something that we have enjoyed for 800 years, it should do so on the basis of facts, not baseless claims.

Also tonight, a Home Office Minister promises to get to the bottom

of why fans of an Israeli football team were banned from a match in Birmingham.

It is also clear that mistakes have clearly been made in this process.

And there's widespread opposition to plans for digital ID cards.

I am not a ten of beans and I do not need a barcode.

But first, it's been less than a week

since the Deputy Prime Minister and Justice Secretary David Lamy

announced plans to scrap jury trials in England and Wales for offences likely to

attract sentences of under three years. Serious offences, including murder and rape, would still go

before a jury. But the Conservative Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick told ministers it wasn't

too late for them to change their minds.

If the government wants to make a major change to our constitution, something that we have

enjoyed for 800 years, it should do so on the basis of facts, not baseless claims.

This plan is already unraveling as the last attempt to do this did 20 years ago.

It's not too late, I say to the minister, to avoid a humiliating defeat.

He accused David Lamy of cutting jury trials under false pretenses.

Last week, the Justice Secretary suggested that 60% of those who report being raped are now pulling out of cases because of court delays.

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