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Plus he's a QC and very capable of answering questions.
But as you can see from user800813590210's comment, lots of people on the left will view his answers as being an apologist kowtowing to the right wing rags and middle England.
hugo7-
Agreed, I'm really impressed by his responses of late - I expect it'll take a lot to outmanoeuvre him argumentatively.
I thought his response pretty reasonable - it was low key common sensicial, and firmly put the problem back onto those who were always going to go mental at the crowd for removing such a 'historical' figure (because anyone who has a statue must be given Respect, as they're clearly important).
He set the stage nicely for people like Patel to then tramp into.
I think one thing he's proving to be extremely adept at is letting people dig their own holes. It's not taken much for the govt to come out in support of a slaver today. Whilst it would have easy to explicitly support the protestors shouting against the Tories - he's instead used them (the Tories) as his own mouthpiece to point out their own despicable positions.
christianSpaceman
He should be alright at those kind of questions - he ran the CPS didn't he? He's presumably got history at backing up Police investigations and acting on them.