Justice system reforms, OBR boss quits, women skip Christmas parties over safety fears
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 2 December 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Major reforms to the UK's criminal justice system are on the way, which could include a reduction to the number of jury trials.
A YouGov poll has found at least one in three people think Rachel Reeves made things look worse than they were ahead of the budget - as Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch accuses the chancellor of using the chair of the budget watchdog as a "human shield".
And half of women will miss their Christmas party because of fears of walking alone on the streets, according to a new study.
Sophy and Wilf have the day's news, in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:29.6 | risk. Welcome to Cheat Sheet, the podcast where we do the work so you don't have to. I'm Wilford |
| 0:35.6 | Frost. And I'm Sophie Ridge. It is Tuesday, the |
| 0:38.4 | second of December. Here's what we've got. Major reforms are coming to the justice system. |
| 0:45.0 | They're going to be announced today. Could the majority of jury trials be scrapped? |
| 0:49.3 | Will they be scrapped more than people are expecting? It follows a big leak last week. |
| 0:53.5 | We'll get the actual story today. |
| 0:55.0 | A study shows that half of women are going to miss their Christmas party this year over safety fears. |
| 1:01.4 | It comes as a review is going to be published today into how safe women feel in public. |
| 1:06.6 | So we'll get into that. |
| 1:07.7 | Plus, forget putting cash on your Christmas list this year. |
| 1:10.7 | Apparently, gold is the more popular option. |
| 1:17.6 | Major reforms to the criminal justice system are on the way. |
| 1:22.1 | And the Justice Secretary David Lammy is going to be announcing exactly what they are later today. |
| 1:27.3 | There's been a |
| 1:27.8 | furor over this because last week, elite memo was published that showed that all jury trials |
| 1:35.0 | were going to be scrapped apart from rape, manslaughter and murder cases. Now, it looks like |
| 1:40.8 | they've rode back from that, I should say. But there definitely will be reforms |
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