Met Police Commissioner Mark Rowley is pulling no punches on the morning round today as he slams Labour’s sentencing changes. Rowley has revealed that Mahmood’s hurried review made no impact assessment with regard to policing…
He said on the Today Programme: “This will generate a lot of extra work… a proportion of those offenders will be committing extra offences.” The commissioner’s comments come after two rare overnight interventions:
In addition Rowley has come out in favour of releasing the ethnic identity of alleged criminals as soon as possible:
“In general I think we have to be realistic and put more personal details in public earlier. It creates all sorts of practical problems but we are in such an age of citizen journalism – people have screenshots, phones. Some content will be all over social media very quickly. People will be making guesses and inferences. I think in that world putting more facts out is the only way to deal with it. If those facts generate some emboldened racists on some cases then we need to confront those individuals. I think trying to avoid truths when half the truth is in the public domain is going to be very difficult going forward.”
The tide is turning here…
Red Wall Labour backbencher Jonathan Brash told GB News that Starmer should resign:
“I’m completely fed up about it, and I think it’s got to the point now where I genuinely think that, as far as the Prime Minister is concerned, it’s not a case of if, it’s when.”