影子司法大臣表示，尽管工党已做出政策大转弯，但仍在“通过后门限制陪审团”，与此同时，保守党大会在伯明翰拉开帷幕。
Shadow justice secretary says despite U-turn Labour are still ‘restricting juries by the back door’, as Conservative conference begins in Birmingham Good morning.
早安。安东尼·塞尔登最近出版了他那部长期且极具价值的首相内幕系列最新作《苏纳克在唐宁街10号》，并为其加上了副标题“最后一位保守党首相？”。当这本书在凯米·巴德诺克刚接任保守党领袖之初开始筹划时，保守党作为执政党似乎已走到尽头。但现在，塞尔登及其合著者汤姆·埃杰顿已不那么确定。他们的书总结道：“在2026年7月撰写本书之时……保守党仍需进行深刻的自我反省，以理解为何在执政中失败，并以如此毁灭性的方式自我撕裂，若想重掌大权。但就目前而言，我们认为苏纳克不太可能是最后一位保守党首相。”这算是巴德诺克的一种胜利。
Anthony Seldon recently published the latest in his long and invaluable series of inside stories of premierships, Sunak at 10, and he gave it the subtitle “The last Conservative prime minister?”When the book was being planned in the early days of Kemi Badenoch’s leadership of the Conservative party, it did look as though the Tories might be finished as a party of government. But now Seldon, and his co-author Tom Egerton, aren’t so sure. Their book concludes: “At the time of writing in July 2026 … the Tory party still needs to engage in a process of deep self-reflection to understand why it failed in government, and tore itself so destructively apart, if it is ever to regain power. But at this point in time we believe it is unlikely that Sunak will have been the last Tory prime minister.”That is a victory, of sorts, for Badenoch.
去年大半时间里，外界都怀疑她能否撑到下届大选仍担任领袖。但她发表了一场成功的党大会演讲，对预算案的回应备受赞誉，她在保守党党员和右倾选民中的个人支持率飙升。伊恩·邓肯·史密斯担任反对党领袖两年后被迫下台。两年后的今天，巴德诺克的领袖地位稳固，甚至有可能在保守党输掉下届大选后继续留任（部分原因是主张截然不同政策路线的保守党人正被从候选人名单中清洗出局）。
For most of last year there were doubts that she would still be leader by the time of the next election. But she gave a successful party conference speech, her response to the budget was much admired, and her personal approval ratings with Tory members and right-leaning voters shot up. After two years as opposition leader, Iain Duncan Smith was booted out. Two years in, Badenoch’s position as leader is safe and it is even conceivable that she could stay on if the Conservatives were to lose the next election (in part because any Tories who favour a radically different policy approach are being purged from the candidates list).
这是所有为捍卫陪审团审判而战的人的重大胜利，而保守党从第一天起就领导了这场斗争。工党被迫放弃了其针对皇家法院陪审团审判的核心攻击。
This is a major victory for everyone who fought to defend trial by jury, and Conservatives led that fight from day one. Labour has been forced to abandon its central attack on jury trials in the crown court.
工党正通过变相手段限制陪审团制度，取消选择陪审团审判的权利，并将这些案件推给积压案件达历史新高的治安法官法庭。
Labour are restricting juries by the back door, scrapping the right to elect one and dumping those cases on magistrates whose backlog is at a record high.
近8.1万起案件滞留在王室法院，却未见承诺增加开庭频次，工党倒是抽出时间将其改革对不同背景人群影响的审查写入法律。
Nearly 81,000 cases are stuck in the crown court, yet there is no commitment to get courts sitting more often, but Labour did find the time to write into law a review of how its reforms treat people of different backgrounds.