Scottish and Northern Irish MPs voted on the abolition of jury trials in England and Wales

Brown sign saying "Site of Magna Carta Eight Centuries of the Rule of Law 15th June 1215-2026.

British MPs voted yesterday to abolish the right to trial by jury for cases with a sentence of up to 3 years in England and Wales.

The right to trial by jury of your peers ultimately comes from Magna Carta and has protected Englishmen (and later, the Welsh) from summary justice. It is a right that we have had for 811 years and it has been taken away in one day by the British.

Justice is a devolved matter in Scotland and Northern Ireland meaning the Courts and Tribunals Bill doesn’t apply there. Yet despite having no mandate in England and Wales and their constituents being unaffected by the abolition of trial by jury, almost every MP elected in Scotland and Northern Ireland voted on the Bill.

It is an indefensible situation where MPs elected in a different country can vote on major, fundamental constitutional changes in England or, as was the case yesterday, England and Wales. We need an English Parliament.

Here is the full list of 66 Scottish and Northern Irish MPs who voted on the bill to end jury trials in England and Wales yesterday:

NameConstituencyPartyCountryVote
Alistair CarmichaelOrkney and ShetlandLib DemScotlandNo
Alan BrownKilmarnock & LoudounSNPScotlandNo
Alan GemmellCentral AyrshireLabourScotlandAye
Alex EastonNorth DownIndependentNorthern IrelandNo
Alison ThewlissGlasgow NorthSNPScotlandNo
Amy CallaghanMid DunbartonshireSNPScotlandNo
Andrew BowieWest Aberdeenshire & KincardineConservativeScotlandNo
Angus MacDonaldInverness, Skye & West Ross-shireLib DemScotlandNo
Anne McLaughlinGlasgow North EastSNPScotlandNo
Anum QaisarAirdrie & ShottsSNPScotlandNo
Brendan O’HaraArgyll, Bute & South LochaberSNPScotlandNo
Brian LeishmanAlloa & GrangemouthLabourScotlandAye
Carla LockhartUpper BannDUPNorthern IrelandNo
Chris KaneStirling & StrathallanLabourScotlandAye
Chris LawDundee CentralSNPScotlandNo
Claire HannaBelfast South & Mid TyroneSDLPNorthern IrelandNo
Colum EastwoodFoyleSDLPNorthern IrelandNo
Dave DooganAngus & Perthshire GlensSNPScotlandNo
David LindenGlasgow EastSNPScotlandNo
David MundellDumfriesshire, Clydesdale & TweeddaleConservativeScotlandNo
Deidre BrockEdinburgh North & LeithSNPScotlandNo
Douglas AlexanderLothian EastLabourScotlandAye
Douglas McAllisterWest DunbartonshireLabourScotlandAye
Frank McNallyCoatbridge & BellshillLabourScotlandAye
Gavin NewlandsPaisley & Renfrewshire NorthSNPScotlandNo
Gavin RobinsonBelfast EastDUPNorthern IrelandAye
Graeme DownieDunfermline & DollarLabourScotlandAye
Graham LeadbitterMoray West, Nairn & StrathspeySNPScotlandNo
Gregor PoyntonLivingstonLabourScotlandAye
Gregory CampbellEast LondonderryDUPNorthern IrelandNo
Harriet CrossGordon & BuchanConservativeScotlandNo
Ian MurrayEdinburgh SouthLabourScotlandAye
Jamie StoneCaithness, Sutherland & Easter RossLib DemScotlandNo
Jim AllisterNorth AntrimTUVNorthern IrelandNo
Jim ShannonStrangfordDUPNorthern IrelandAye
Joani ReidEast Kilbride & StrathavenLabourScotlandAye
Joanna CherryEdinburgh South WestSNPScotlandNo
John GradyGlasgow EastLabourScotlandAye
John LamontBerwickshire, Roxburgh & SelkirkConservativeScotlandNo
Katrina MurrayCumbernauld & KirkintillochLabourScotlandAye
Kenneth StevensonAirdrie & ShottsLabourScotlandAye
Kirsteen SullivanBathgate & LinlithgowLabourScotlandAye
Kirsty BlackmanAberdeen NorthSNPScotlandNo
Lillian JonesKilmarnock & LoudounLabourScotlandAye
Lucy BeattieCaithness, Sutherland & Easter RossSNPScotlandNo
Melanie WardCowdenbeath & KirkcaldyLabourScotlandAye
Mhairi BlackPaisley & Renfrewshire SouthSNPScotlandNo
Michael ShanksRutherglenLabourScotlandAye
Pamela NashMotherwell, Wishaw & CarlukeLabourScotlandAye
Patricia FergusonGlasgow WestLabourScotlandAye
Pete WishartPerth & Kinross-shireSNPScotlandNo
Philippa WhitfordCentral AyrshireSNPScotlandNo
Richard ThomsonGordon & BuchanSNPScotlandNo
Robin SwannSouth AntrimUUPNorthern IrelandNo
Ronnie CowanInverclyde & Renfrewshire WestSNPScotlandNo
Sammy WilsonEast AntrimDUPNorthern IrelandAye
Seamus LoganAberdeenshire North & Moray EastSNPScotlandNo
Sorcha EastwoodLagan ValleyAllianceNorthern IrelandNo
Stephen FlynnAberdeen SouthSNPScotlandNo
Stephen GethinsArbroath & Broughty FerrySNPScotlandNo
Stewart HosieDundee CentralSNPScotlandNo
Susan MurrayMid DunbartonshireLib DemScotlandNo
Tommy SheppardEdinburgh East & MusselburghSNPScotlandNo
Torcuil CrichtonNa h-Eileanan an IarLabourScotlandAye
Wendy ChamberlainNorth East FifeLib DemScotlandNo
Zubir AhmedGlasgow South WestLabourScotlandAye

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Stuart Parr
Veteran campaigner for an English Parliament, parish councillor, bibliophile and lover of words.

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