Elevenses: Law-and-Order Labour
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is rubbish. So is Labour's response.
The Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill is rubbish. So is Labour's response.
Dame Vera Baird QC said it was critical that the Government takes steps to ‘redress confidence’ in the criminal justice system.
"If it had been lawful, I'd have been there. I would have been at a vigil," Dame Cressida said.
Banners in the crowd said “Men your silence is deafening” and “Cressida you’re a woman too”, while protesters shouted: “Sisters united will never be defeated.”
Shadow justice secretary David Lammy said the party cannot support a bill that would lead to harsher penalties for damaging a statue than attacking a woman.
Last month it was found that every single one of the 246 prosecutions launched under the draconian law has been overturned.
Sadiq Khan said "the police have a responsibility to enforce Covid laws but from images I've seen it's clear the response was at times neither appropriate nor proportionate."
Sarah Everard's tragic disappearances shows that men and women inhabit two very different realities.
He was finally caught when a 16-year-old girl raised the alarm at H&M after she heard the camera click.
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