New guidance for judges to consider a criminal’s ethnicity before deciding their punishment could be overruled by a change in the law to stop “two-tier” justice, the Conservative leader has said.
Kemi Badenoch called for the Justice Secretary, Shabana Mahmood, to change the law, and said the Conservatives “will back her”, after Ms Mahmood said she would “register my displeasure” to the Sentencing Council over the move.
