Cabinet feedback” seems to be the euphemism of the day, at least so far as David Lammy’s sweeping reforms to the criminal court system in England and Wales go.
One can only imagine the formal and informal pressure that was exerted on the lord chancellor when his colleagues discovered, via leaks and, presumably, Whitehall gossip, that a shake-up of the legal system, which would signal the beginning of the end for trial by jury, was supposedly being considered.
