Justice secretary indicates she could bring in new laws as Tories repeat claims of ‘two-tier guidance’ – UK politics live
Shabana Mahmood and Robert Jenrick clash in Commons over Sentencing Council’s new guidelinesIn the Commons Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, is asking Shabana Mahmood about the Sentencing Council’s decision to refuse her request to change what he described as its “two-tier guidance”.Jenrick says Mahmood briefed the papers that she was “incandescent”. Was she incandescent about her offficials, or about her failure to read the papers about what the Sentencing Council was proposing.We will never stand for a two-tier approach to sentencing, but I am actually getting on with fixing the problem, rather than looking for a bandwagon to jump on. That is why I have already written to the Sentencing Council. I will be meeting with them later in this week, and I have made it very clear I will consider their role and their powers, and if I need to legislate, I will do so.But I will make sure that whatever changes I bring forward are workable and they deliver the fair justice system that we all need and deserve, and one his government did not deliver. Continue reading...
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Shabana Mahmood and Robert Jenrick clash in Commons over Sentencing Council’s new guidelines
In the Commons Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary, is asking Shabana Mahmood about the Sentencing Council’s decision to refuse her request to change what he described as its “two-tier guidance”.
Jenrick says Mahmood briefed the papers that she was “incandescent”. Was she incandescent about her offficials, or about her failure to read the papers about what the Sentencing Council was proposing.
We will never stand for a two-tier approach to sentencing, but I am actually getting on with fixing the problem, rather than looking for a bandwagon to jump on. That is why I have already written to the Sentencing Council. I will be meeting with them later in this week, and I have made it very clear I will consider their role and their powers, and if I need to legislate, I will do so.
But I will make sure that whatever changes I bring forward are workable and they deliver the fair justice system that we all need and deserve, and one his government did not deliver. Continue reading...
