Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has called for controversial new sentencing guidelines to be scrapped “as soon as possible” amid growing backlash over claims they could create a “two-tier justice system.”
The row erupted after the Sentencing Council issued new guidance instructing judges to consider an offender’s ethnicity when deciding punishments. The move has sparked outrage, with Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick vowing legal action, accusing the council of embedding “anti-white and anti-Christian bias” into the system.
