«When the previous Government consulted on this matter, the right hon. and learned Member for Beaconsfield (Mr Grieve), who was then the
shadow Secretary of State for
Justice and is
now the Attorney - General, described the prospect of giving prisoners the vote as «ludicrous».
Leaving aside the inconvenient fact that even an illegal war isn't necessarily a crime, are we to suppose that Mr Corbyn will
now be demanding that Labour's deputy leader, Tom Watson,
shadow foreign secretary, Hilary Benn, and
shadow justice secretary, Charles Falconer, be added to the fantasy indictment for having supported and voted for the invasion, two (Benn and Falconer) as members of the government at the time?