Lucy Connolly: How my daughter struggled when I was in prison

Lucy Connolly despairs of her country. ‘I don’t think this is the Britain most sane people want, is it?’ she says. ‘Everybody’s just living in fear of what they can and can’t say and what’s going to happen next.’ Indeed. Just over two weeks ago, she was told that the school her 13-year-old daughter Edie was expecting to join last Monday, had withdrawn her place.