POLL: Should David Lammy immediately U-turn on plans to cut back on juries?

David Lammy announced earlier this week the centuries-old right to a trial by jury will be drastically stripped back to clear a courts backlog.

But the move has sparked concern in the US, with a leading figure in Donald Trump's administration urging an immediate rethink.

Sarah Rogers, the Under-Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy, said the changes would see more people jailed for breaching the UK's "absurd censorship laws".

"The right to jury trials and other foundational freedoms, we share that with Britain," she said.

"One reason for the outcry at that jury trial removal is that you won't have access to jury nullification of your absurd censorship laws.

"This means a jury seeing how the law applies, seeing that the defendant is guilty, and voting to acquit him anyways, because the law is senseless.

"When you have to rely on that safety valve, it means the law is misguided."