HeyJaredThe Political Lawyer
Thoughts on UK and EU law, politics and government and how they all relate to each other. The law will mainly be from my practice areas (regulation; public law; trade and EU-related): the politics will be broadly Labour.
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- Sep 18, 2026
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Towards Electoral Reform (opens the original)
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[W]e should move to a system of proportional representation for the election of the Commons. … Every person and every place will only be equal when every vote is equal. Under the present system, some people and places are more equal than others.” Andy Burnham in “Head North”, p.194[I have spoken] before about leaving this place 10 years ago, standing for the first time under a proportional system and seeing how it changed the conversation on the doorstep, where all of a sudden there was an incen
Different views of free speech: my talk to the Free Speech Union (opens the original)
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Context: I was invited by the FSU, along with representatives of the other main parties’ legal societies, to give a brief talk at the FSU annual drinks on 10 July. The Lib Dems did not attend, and the other speakers were Harry Gillow1 of the Society of Conservative Lawyers and Martin Howe KC, chair of Lawyers for Reform. This is a lightly edited version of what I said (incorporating a couple of additional points from post-talk conversations).Thanks for inviting me to come and speak this evening.
Your lawyers would like a word! Andy Burnham’s legal in-tray (opens the original)
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I wrote an article for Labour List on some of the issues Andy Burnham will need to deal with. https://labourlist.org/2026/07/andy-burnhams-legal-in-tray/
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