David Lammy Pledges to Slash Jury Trials
Novara Live
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4.8 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 69 minutes
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Summary
David Lammy is expected to announce reforms that would see jury trials ended for sentences of three years or less.
Plus: Rachel Reeves is under pressure over budget “lies”, and we discuss Zack Polanski’s economic influences.
With Aaron Bastani and Kieran Andrieu.
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| 0:00.0 | This episode of Navarra Life is made possible by Navarra Media supporters. |
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| 0:17.9 | Hello, good evening. Welcome to Navaral Live. My name is Aramistani, and tonight I, of course, have the pleasure, the privilege, the joy of being joined by the one and only, Kieran, Andrew. Kieran, how are we? Well, very good, Aaron. Delighted to be joining you, as always. I always feel like I say I'm good or I'm less good or I'm very good. I want this today mix it up a bit. |
| 0:37.6 | What's your favourite film of all time, Aaron? |
| 0:40.8 | This time of year, it has to be it's a wonderful life. |
| 0:45.0 | Very good. |
| 0:45.9 | Has to be. You? |
| 0:48.9 | Any time of year, the Godfather part two. But I do love it's a wonderful life. |
| 0:54.8 | Normally I'd say that, Kieran, we are, we are so alike. |
| 0:58.0 | I'm going to say it's a wonderful life because, you know, not many people know this, |
| 1:01.0 | but the lead actor in that was allegedly channeling PTSD, |
| 1:07.0 | which he had from the Second World War, when he was at his lowest ebb, and he's literally |
| 1:11.1 | praying to God, Jimmy Stewart, I don't want to ruin it for some people. He's praying |
| 1:15.6 | to God, please God help me, and he's crying, and allegedly that was him, that was not planned, |
| 1:21.4 | it was not expected, and it was an outpouring of grief that allegedly, some say, been bottled |
| 1:26.8 | up from his participation in the Second World War. |
| 1:30.0 | You can say many things about Marlon Brando or Al Pacino or Robert De Niro, but, you know, they'd never reckoned with something like that personally, had they? |
| 1:39.4 | Quite true. |
| 1:40.5 | They had a, Marlon Brando had a very stressful childhood, very distressing childhood, |
| 1:45.9 | which he then canolize and used as part of his kind of method acting approach. But yes, |
| 1:51.3 | you're right. They, they didn't go to war. They were lucky enough to not be part of that generation. |
| 1:56.4 | And I hope we're lucky enough and our children are lucky enough. And maybe for some watching your |
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