Grayling’s glittering career

Justice secretary blames predecessor for probation’s lost decade

In a speech yesterday about the probation service, the justice secretary Shabana Mahmood spoke sarcastically about the “glittering government career” of Lord Grayling, who was Conservative justice secretary from September 2012 to May 2015.

While there had been bright moments in the probation service’s past, she said on a visit to the London probation ser…