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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
August Graham

Fact check: New sentencing guidelines were written by independent body

The Conservative Party claimed that the Prime Minister supports a change to the guidelines about when courts should ask for a so-called pre-sentencing report.

Writing on social media, the party said: “Keir Starmer wants to treat ethnic minority criminals more leniently in sentencing, creating a two-tier justice system. It’s anti-British.”

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