Should you have to pay the price for crime your whole life? Twenty years ago a friend’s daughter- then just 16 years old- was caught up in a group fight outside her school. The police arrested them all and she was convicted of “violent disorder”. Now the daughter promotes sport in schools and that old…
Today, the minister for justice, James Cartlidge, faced questions from the shadow minister, Steve Reed. Reed referred to the average time between a victim reporting a rape and the case coming to trial “hitting a new high of over 1,000 days” and that the government proposal to give magistrates more sentencing powers “could make the…
With the Conservative party conference opening in Manchester today, Johnson gave the usual pre-conference interview to Andrew Marr this morning. The political backdrop to this interview and the Conservative conference more broadly is widely understood to hold several problems for our PM. He is currently grappling with shortages across the economy as well as the…
