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 to Adam Boulton on Times Radio about kicking the Golders Green suspect, Heidi Alexander said:
“I thought that if I was in the shoes of that police officer, then if I’m honest, given the situation, and the fact that he had a backpack on his back, and they were worried about whether that might go off, I could, if I was a police officer, frankly, I could see myself having taken similar action.”