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Hello, I'm Sean Curran and this is today in Parliament from BBC Radio 4 for Tuesday the 10th of March,

when the Justice Secretary defended his plans to cut the number of jury trials in England and Wales.

Victims currently are worn down. People simply give up. Cases collapse and offenders remain free.

MPs demand government help to tackle rising prices in the face of war in the Middle East.

Well, the Chancellor recognised that families are really struggling at the moment and put in an

emergency package of measures to support families through the cost of living crisis. Also tonight,

the House of Lords agrees to remove the remaining hereditary peers after the government

offers compromises during a late evening debate. And could digital ID be a slippery slope?

Before long, your phone battery dies while you're in the queue with Costa. You're essentially a non-person.

Sorry, sir, no flatweight for you. Computer says you no longer exist. But first, plans to restrict

the right to trial by jury in England and Wales have cleared their first hurdle in the Commons.

The eyes to the right, 304. The nose to the left, 203.

The government won that first vote on the courts and tribunals bill with a majority of 101.

Ten Labour MPs rebelled and voted against the plans to scrap jury trials

in cases with a likely sentence of three years or less.

Others abstained at the end of a lengthy debate

which was opened by the Justice Secretary David Lammy,

who said Labour had inherited a system close to breaking point.

If we do nothing, the backlog is projected to reach 200,000 within the next decade.

He was supported by a Labour MP, Natalie Natalie Fleet who has spoken about her experience of being

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