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Tory and Reform politicians endanger trials with immigration ‘hysteria’, say former ministers

Former attorney general Dominic Grieve among those criticising politicians for risking contempt of court

The Guardian - UK · Aug 5, 2025

Probation staff shortages threaten to derail plans to safely release prisoners early, ministers warned

Exclusive: ‘Vital window’ to boost probation workforce before prison reforms put huge pressure on service already in chaos, says union chief

The Independent UK · May 23, 2025

Teenager jailed for 18 months after McDonald’s fight still in prison 18 years later under indefinite jail term

Exclusive: IPP prisoner Luke Ings was 17 when he was jailed for robbery and a fight in McDonald’s. Now aged 36, he still has no release date

The Independent UK · Sep 21, 2024

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‘Do the right thing’: Pressure mounts on government to resentence prisoners with indefinite terms

Exclusive: Sir Bob Neill heaped pressure on Keir Starmer to resentence IPP prisoners after another inmate took his life

The Independent UK · Aug 21, 2024

Fears for father still in jail 19 years after laptop robbery under ‘scandalous’ IPP sentence

Exclusive: Government must have ‘courage to know when something is wrong’ and review IPP sentences, Bob Neill tells The Independent

The Independent UK · Jul 27, 2024

General Election 2024 London seats: Who is my MP in...Bromley and Biggin Hill?

Evening Standard analysis of key seats in London for the July 4 General Election

Evening Standard · Jun 11, 2024

Tory candidate Ashley Fox accused of lying to MPs to secure job

Fox had said he had no political ambitions when being vetted as chair of Independent Monitoring Authority

The Guardian - UK · Jun 7, 2024

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The seven times Farage tried and failed to become an MP

Reform UK leader Farage will attempt to get a seat in the House of Commons for the eighth time

The Independent UK · Jun 5, 2024

Tory staff running network of anti-Ulez Facebook groups riddled with racism and abuse

Investigation finds groups hosting Islamophobic attacks on London mayor Sadiq Khan, white supremacist slogans and antisemitic conspiracy theories

The Guardian - UK · Apr 27, 2024

Ministers introduce bill to quash convictions of Horizon scandal victims

Unprecedented bill aimed to be passed in summer will exonerate hundreds of post office operators in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK · Mar 13, 2024

Plans to reform private prosecutions after Post Office Horizon scandal

Improved oversight and a law to strip organisations of their power to take people to court are among measures gaining cross-party support

The Guardian - UK · Jan 13, 2024

‘Cell, street, repeat’: Thousands of prisoners being set up to fail with release into homelessness

About 600 people leave prison without accommodation every month

The Independent UK · Dec 28, 2023

Rwanda bill has Tories outcompeting each other to new levels of insanity

Not even the death of an asylum seeker on the Bibby Stockholm can rein in MPs’ fervour to trample over the international law

The Guardian - UK · Dec 12, 2023

Government blasted for refusing to resentence inmates trapped in jail with no hope of release

‘Unfinished business’: Justice committee chair Bob Neill welcomes licence reforms but calls for government to resentence IPP prisoners

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2023

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The Guardian - UK · Nov 24, 2023

Sunak risks ripping up Good Friday agreement over Rwanda, senior Tories say

Concerns echo White House remarks that blocking human rights laws could undermine Northern Ireland peace process

The Independent UK · Nov 19, 2023

Revealed: 16 years in prison for stealing a bike and no hope of release – as 7 trapped in jail kill themselves

Exclusive: Lord David Blunkett called for Alex Chalk to ‘give hope’ to prisoners trapped on IPP sentences as the shocking death toll was revealed

The Independent UK · Nov 9, 2023

Courts failing to follow ‘basic legal steps’ when jailing people before trial, report reveals

Thousands may have been jailed without proper legal justification, ‘deeply concerning’ new analysis reveals

The Independent UK · Oct 24, 2023

National debate on sentencing needed ‘to correct dysfunctional conversation’

The call comes from the cross-party Justice Committee in a new 61-page report, which calls for serious engagement with the public by the Government.

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The Independent UK · Oct 23, 2023

Where have all the judges gone? Record number of trials delayed over staffing crisis

Exclusive: Rape and violent crime cases being delayed as shortage of judges causes unprecedented backlog, in shocking indictment of creaking criminal justice system

The Independent UK · Oct 6, 2023

Revealed: Record number of rape suspects on Britain’s streets amid ‘absolute scandal’ in court delays

Exclusive: Former justice secretary hits out at ‘scandal’ as alleged victims forced to wait longer than ever for justice

The Guardian - UK · Sep 28, 2023

Tory MPs criticise Suella Braverman’s ‘alarmist’ speech on migration

Two MPs distance themselves from home secretary’s talk of ‘existential challenge’ as she called for human rights reform

The Independent UK · Sep 16, 2023

Britain’s broken justice system revealed as prisoners trapped in jail for five years before trial

Exclusive: Number of accused held on remand hits record high with 15,000 languishing in overcrowded prisons

The Independent UK · Aug 28, 2023

Tories turn on ‘useless’ Nadine Dorries after attack on Sunak

Boris Johnson loyalist branded ‘bitter’ and ‘embarrassment’ – after making extraordinary accusation in exit letter that PM put her safety at risk

The Independent UK · Aug 27, 2023

Tories turn on ‘useless’ Nadine Dorries after attack on Sunak

Boris Johnson loyalist branded ‘bitter’ and ‘embarrassment’ – after making extraordinary accusation in exit letter that PM put her safety at risk

Evening Standard · Aug 6, 2023

Ministers to scrap prison living cost rule for wrongful convictions

The case of Andrew Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison for a rape he did not commit, sparked outrage about compensation deductions

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