Shame on QC who compared Raab to Putin

Just who does Jolyon Maugham QC think he is, making nasty and false remarks about Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab, comparing him to warmongering Vladimir Putin, as reported in last week’s Mail on Sunday? If this is the standard a QC is reduced to, heaven help the justice system of our country.

Sir Iain Duncan Smith got it right in his response. This man should lie down in a darkened room and return to reality, as he has definitely lost it.

Terence Matthews,

Upminster

Maugham is a Remainer and hates anything pro-UK. If there’s anything that supports British identity or self-determination, like Brexit or a British Bill of Rights, he’ll find some way to crowd-fund a ‘legal case’ against it. The Government really needs to step in and stop taxpayers’ money being wasted on defending these sorts of frivolous actions.

R. Morris, London

Jolyon Maugham QC asserts that Justice Secretary Dominic Raab is like Putin because he is determined to crack down on ‘wokery’. No doubt that’s because he feels this will reduce the cases he can make money from.

Worthing

Peter Naylor, It’s hypocritical of the Government to say free speech is

in jeopardy when they label everything they disagree with as ‘woke’ and try to get it banned.

Jan Morgan, Clitheroe

The way you are prepared to treat an animal makes a statement about the inner self. Therefore, we definitely know what kind of bloke fox-clubbing barrister Jolyon Maugham is.

Tony Thompson, Banbury

If this Government really cared about free speech, they wouldn’t have introduced a Police and Crime Bill which cracks down on how, when and where we protest. An independent judiciary is also a pillar of democracy and they are interfering with that.

H. Irwin, Cheltenham

Jolyon Maugham QC comparing Dominic Raab to Vladimir

Putin is like me comparing Marmite to a bicycle. I’m not sure which comparison is more absurd.

Vincent Hefter, Richmond

I really don’t understand why Jolyon Maugham QC believes that the UK is on its way to becoming a totalitarian state.

How can the right to free speech be totalitarian?

H. Robinson, Milton Keynes

Lord Sumption is the only QC worth listening to on matters of free speech. The man is a total legend. He came out strongly and succinctly against lockdowns and suffered appalling abuse, as imbeciles like Maugham try to conflate free speech with totalitarianism when it is clearly the polar opposite.

B. Alexander, Norfolk