Keir Starmer has used prime minister’s questions to double down on Labour’s attacks on the government’s record over crime, saying that Rishi Sunak has “lost control of the court service” and allowed offenders to go free.
In a potential sign of a brutal general election campaign to come next year, Sunak responded with direct attacks on Starmer, castigating him for his record as director of public prosecutions (DPP) and accusing him of being “soft on crime, soft on criminals”.
