Speaking in Parliament, the senior minister said: “I shall not be going out of here immediately afterwards and drawing a moustache on the statue on Oliver Cromwell much though I am opposed to regicides in principle and think they deserve to be removed from pedestals broadly speaking.”
He told MPs that monuments should be protected and only removed through “due process”, but added that “one of our greatest monuments is the jury system which is the great sublime protector of our liberties”.
“Juries must be free to come to decisions that they choose to come to on the facts that are in front of them in relation to a specific case and what they hear from the prosecuting counsel, from the defence counsel and from the judge,” he said.
Other MP’s have made statements which pander to populism and even the ridiculous.