Conservative peer Lord Faulks QC has quit as Minister of State for Justice after Liz Truss became the third consecutive non-lawyer to be made Lord Chancellor.
While the appointment has been lauded in some quarters for breaking an 800-year run of male Lord Chancellors, new UK prime minister Theresa May’s move to replace Westminster heavyweight Michael Gove with such a junior minister has provoked fears of further government mishandling of the justice brief.
