Matthew Scott
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Barrister. Blogger. https://t.co/UhmWijBrW4
South West, England
Joined March 2012
Stop lynching ex- York : yet again im happy to agree with Matthew Parris who pitches this item perfectly
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Innocent until proven guilty. It’s a bedrock principle of due process: the burden of proof is on the state, not the accused. The state must prove your guilt “beyond a reasonable doubt” before punishing you. /🧵
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Russian citizen and former French Legion soldier Pierre Malinowski is the suspected ring-leader of the Louvre Museum jewel heist in Paris. He works with Putin spokesman's daughter Elizaveta Peskova at Kremlin's subversion project Russian-French Historical Foundation in Moscow.
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Democrats are fear-mongering! And for what? So they can keep COVID spending alive and well—all for a $450 billion corporate welfare handout to Big Insurance. Here's the TRUTH about the expiring COVID credits and health insurance premiums in 2026.
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Collins says Jonathan Powell had no involvement in the case at all. Sir Chris says he's looked into it & "i've seen absolutely no evidence that Mr Powell had any influence."
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Lord Boateng: "is it your view that China's espionagd threatens our democratic institutuons?," Yes, says Collins.
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Sir Chris says that what DPP said had changed on 3rd Sep meeting was the Roussev case.
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Andy Slaughter: you thought range oc threats was sufficient. But CPS thought you needed to say more. It looka like a misunderstsndibg. Collins says he was advised by external counsel & internal legal team that he'd said enough.
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Sir Chris sayz DPP informed AG. Then explained reasoning to me, Collins joined meeting raised nore questions, and DPP agred to "one more loop" which led to meeting on 9th sep.
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I was able to say China posed a series of threats, CPS wanted me to.say China posed a threat.
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I was v clear when I agreed to be a witness that I would give evid in line with gov policy. In meeting with DPP and with csl on 9th Sep i said muchbthe same as I've said today.
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Lord Hutton asks if he was surprised at dropping of case. He says he was surprised, though always knew it woukd be a challenge.
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Collins says the language about "enemy" was taken out of his first witness statement in line with gov policy.
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Sir Chris says CPS wasnt present at that meeting, and relations with China didn't affect decision to drop case.
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Sir Chris Wormald talks about meeting held to discuss a range of different scenarios, but we didn't discuss the evidence.
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Myvrecollection of meeting on 4th aug was that I would set out thd ways in which China was a threat in a number of wayz.
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