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It is over a year since the murder of George Floyd, which prompted reflections about policing and race across the world. In the UK, there was discussion around the systemic racism that persists in policing and the criminal justice system…
Polls have narrowed. YouGov last week reported that the Conservative lead over Labour had fallen from 13 points to four. Survation recorded an 11-point lead reduced to two within a fortnight. In fact, all major pollsters have recognised a…
Keir Starmer is set to launch a 'safer communities' campaign with a focus on ending violence against women and girls, investing in areas with high levels of antisocial behaviour and strengthening protections for victims. The campaign was…
Boris Johnson rewrote history today, or at least tried to. Challenged over his refusal to condemn fans booing England players taking the knee, he insisted: "Nobody defends booing of the English side." This is not true, as Keir Starmer…
It’s the hope that kills you: as an England fan, or as a Labour member approaching a general election in recent years. The top story this morning is the disgusting racism being thrown at some players, particularly Marcus Rashford, Jadon…
Conservative MPs, who cry murder every time a right-wing speaker is disinvited from an event by a student society, lined up this week behind a bill that tries to legislate protest out of meaningful existence. The untroubled passage of the…
Labour voted against the police, crime, sentencing and courts bill this evening, but the controversial legislation passed its third reading by a majority of 100, with 365 MPs backing it and 265 opposing. Closing the debate for Labour, Nick…
Rape has been effectively decriminalised. This is the conclusion not just of women’s rights campaigners and organisations, but also of the victims’ commissioner for England and Wales, Dame Vera Baird QC. Boris Johnson has blamed the…
The overwhelming majority of British adults support the proposal put forward by Labour of a minimum seven-year sentence for rape convictions, exclusive polling by Savanta ComRes for LabourList can reveal. The research shows 74% of Brits…
Unusually for the past 15 months, the pandemic featured very little in Prime Minister's Questions today. Instead, the Labour leader challenged Johnson over the recently published end-to-end rape review. Highlighting that 98.4% of reported…
David Lammy has said Robert Buckland rendered his apology following the release of the end-to-end rape review "meaningless" after the Justice Secretary described the target to increase prosecutions to 2016 levels as "constitutionally…
Today sees the publication of the government’s long-awaited end-to-end rape review. Rape victims have been failed for years. Ministers are right to apologise. We have to shake up the culture of rape investigations and prosecutions, and…
