This morning David Gauke will don the finery and trappings of his new office of lord chancellor and justice secretary to be sworn in before an array of the most senior judges in the land. “Everyone tells me it is a nerve-racking experience, but I’m looking forward to it. It is one of our great traditions,” he told The Times this week.The Ministry of Justice, he adds, is the first department he has been in with “with its own dressing-up box”. Gauke had to hit the ground running with the furore over the Parole Board’s decision to release the “taxi rapist” John Worboys. He has set up a review on the board’s workings and is taking advice on whether…

Source: The Times January 18, 2018 00:00 UTC