The right to jury trial.....

.....was reaffirmed in the Bill of Rights in 1689 when parliament sought to entrench the traditional liberties that had been, threatened by the autocratic ambitions of the Stuarts (i.e. to entrench the rights of the individual against the executive)

As Lord DevIin wrote,

“The first object of any tyrant in Whitehall would be to make Parliament utterly subservient to his will and the next to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for no tyrant could afford to leave a subject's freedom in the hands of twelve of his countrymen. So that trial by jury is more than an instrument of justice and more than one wheel of the constitution, it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives”

Who can say, with three line whips and de-selection, parliament is not now utterly subservient to the PM. Now they want rid of trial by jury. We are sleep walking into serfdom.