The former justice secretary Sir Robert Buckland has called for an amnesty for more than 29,000 people given criminal convictions for breaking Covid rules, today’s Telegraph reports.
Buckland, who was justice secretary from July 2019 to September 2021 and is seeking re-election in his old seat, said any background criminal checks should focus on those wh…
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