, Labour’s Shadow Justice
Secretary, responding to the government’s trail of
crime and justice measures in the King’s Speech, said:
“What further proof do we need that the Tories have completely
run out of ideas, than witnessing them using the most significant
event in the parliamentary calendar to simply repackage ideas
they’ve announced multiple times.
“There’s no use posturing on law and order when the criminal
justice system is crumbling under the government’s feet after 13
years of mismanagement.
“The government should be focusing on delivering the prison
places we actually need to keep criminals behind bars. They have
utterly failed to manage the prison estate and the best they
could come up with to fix it was letting criminals out early.
“Labour will rebuild public confidence in policing and the
criminal justice system, and we’ll restore the rule of law on
Britain’s streets.”
Ends
Notes:
- After 13 years of Tory Government, more than 90
per cent of crimes are going unsolved - meaning
that criminals are less than half as likely to be caught now
compared to the last Labour government. More criminals being let
off, far more victims being let down - that is the abysmal
Conservative record on law and order, and one that there is no
plan to turn around in this King's Speech.
Crime outcomes year to
June 2023: data tables - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)
