presumption

“We ask the public to respect the presumption of innocence and to refrain from speculation as we work to gather all relevant facts.”

The most hardline migration-sceptics argue that the deception goes even deeper – they claim that it is the result of a fundamental presumption baked into the political system in favour of large-scale migration.

The Scottish government has previously said it had a "presumption against" new oil and gas exploration.

For a decade now, and with extra-special urgency amid Trump’s political reemergence over the past year or so, journalists have made the same arguments, deployed the same formats, and issued the same sorts of rebuttals, all under the presumption that at some point the sheer weight of accumulated evidence has to break through the walls of denial that Trump’s supporters have built up to shield themselves from apology and accountability.

Days later, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced reforms aimed at improving police accountability, one of which involves a presumption of anonymity for firearms officers charged with criminal offences after police shootings.