Labour’s deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has condemned the “depressing” tone of the cross‑examination of Russell Brand’s victims at his rape and sexual assault trial, saying she believed the courts had moved beyond such practices. Powell, now serving as education secretary, also expressed regret over the 2015 meeting she arranged between former party leader Ed Miliband and Brand while she was Labour’s campaign chief. She linked the trial’s approach to a broader cultural issue she thought had been left behind.
Lucy Powell says she thought ‘we’d gone past that sort of culture’, and that she regrets setting up Miliband interview with comedian in 2015Brand sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for rape and sexual assaultLabour’s deputy leader, Lucy Powell, has criticised the “depressing” nature of the cross-examination of Russell Brand’s victims during his trial for rape and sexual assault, saying she believed the courts had “long gone past that sort of culture”.Powell, now the education secretary, also said she regretted the meeting that the former party leader Ed Miliband had with Brand in 2015, when she was Labour’s campaign chief. Continue reading...
