Last night in the Lords, Labour and LibDem Lords teamed up to vote down a Tory amendment to exempt sex offenders and domestic abusers from automatic suspended sentences. After Starmer handed the LibDems five peers in exchange for their more ready support in Lords votes…
Tory peer Lord Keen put forward the amendment to the Sentencing Bill so that domestic abusers would serve their sentences in jail, rather than in the same communities as their victims. Now thanks to the Labour and LibDem love-in, that won’t always be the case. This is just a month after Labour published its Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy…
Speaking about the Metropolitan Police, Nigel Farage told a press conference in London:
“Giuliani didn’t abolish the NYPD. He changed the leadership. He put those into positions of authority that shared his vision of the broken windows theory of dealing with crime from the bottom up. That’s what you have to do. So, I would suggest that rather than scrapping it, we need to find the right people in the right position.”