UK democracy at a low point, bishop tells judges

Rt Rev Dame Sarah Mullally refers to Brexit ‘chaos and confusion’ as legal year opens. British democracy is at one of its “low points” and the government’s justice policy is letting “prisons proliferate”, the bishop of London has said at the formal opening of the legal year. Delivering the sermon in Westminster Abbey on Tuesday, the Rt Rev Dame Sarah Mullally referred to the “chaos and confusion” of the Brexit crisis and praised Magna Carta f