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Mahmood gets justice

Mahmood gets justice

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Sep 04, 2023
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Congratulations to Shabana Mahmood, MP for Birmingham Ladywood and Labour’s new shadow justice secretary. Nothing is life is certain — still less in politics — but she now has what lawyers might call a reasonable expectation of becoming lord chancellor in a year or so from now.

Mahmood, 42, is some four months younger than Rishi Sunak and overlapped wit…

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