Disastrous Ken Clarke interview on "discount" or "credit" for rapists

This morning Ken Clarke gave this interview to Victoria Derbyshire on Radio 5. He has since given further disastrous interview on Sky News and BBC News. We’ll bring you those if/when we can get ahold of them.

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