Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has put a series of criminal justice laws at the heart of the King’s Speech, in a bid to draw dividing lines with…
Plans for tougher sentences for killers, rapists and grooming gang ringleaders are not simply a bid for votes ahead of the next general election, the Justice Secretary has insisted.
“I myself personally, when I wasn’t in government last year, I was speaking at the Conservative Party conference, and a lot of what we’re going to do, they’re the very measures that I was talking about then. Sir Keir Starmer’s record as director of public prosecutions could be a point of weakness, the Prime Minister’s allies believe
It will also make being in a grooming gang an aggravating feature for sentencing, meaning tougher punishments for ringleaders and members. The Government has promised the largest prison building programme in 100 years to create more than 20,000 more places. Shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood said the Tories are ‘repackaging ideas they’ve announced multiple times’
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