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One possibility is a greater role for ministers or Parliament in scrutinising the Sentencing Council - something one figure described as "a democratic lock" on its powers.

Jones, 39, from Oxford, visited the palace for a second time the day before the heist, and took pictures of the golden toilet, a lock on the door and a nearby window.

A lock on the cubicle to the toilet was also photographed.

Still, at the 77th Academy Awards ceremony, held Feb. 27, 2005, at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles, “Million Dollar Baby” was not a lock on the prize — until all at once, it was.

Given the backlash against the watering down of the triple lock on the Isle of Man, the MPs of the future may view what's happening on the island with some trepidation.