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“... were made foreign secretary at the age of 38). Adoring crowds followed him throughout his career. Leo McKinstry in this excellent new biography makes a case for him being the first modern celebrity (but what about Nelson?). The music halls rang to the words: ‘Nearly everyone knows me, from Smith to Lord Rosebery,/I’m Burlington Bertie from ...”

“... but to the justice system itself. Yet again, she quotes dismissive journalism – here Leo McKinstry in the Express ‘chuckling that “this kind of alarmist talk could hardly be more absurd.”’ The trouble was that criminal legal aid had for years been milked by a combination of inflated lawyers’ fee claims and inefficient ...”