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Shabana Mahmood appointed Home Secretary after cabinet reshuffle

Mahmood replaces Yvette Cooper in the role amid pressure over migration and asylum hotels

The Independent UK · Sep 5, 2025

Sir Keir Starmer makes major Cabinet reshuffle after Rayner quits over tax row

Ms Rayner quit Government following an official probe into her admission she did not pay enough stamp duty when she bought a seaside home.

Evening Standard · Sep 5, 2025

The most significant moves ​in Starmer​’s reshuffle​d cabinet after Rayner exit

Deputy PM’s departure prompts wholesale changes with some of government’s biggest names moving jobs

The Guardian - UK · Sep 5, 2025

Justice Secretary slams 'appalling' personal attacks on judges which 'put their safety at risk'

Shabana Mahmood’s remarks come after a period of sustained public criticism of judges

Evening Standard · Sep 3, 2025

Tagging criminals in prison to be trialled to close ‘surveillance gap’

A pilot programme of tagging offenders in prison on the day of their release is set to begin in October.

Evening Standard · Sep 2, 2025

Minister to get power to veto sentencing guidance after ‘two-tier’ row

Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood said she wanted to ‘right the democratic deficit that has been uncovered’.

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2025

Labour plots political oversight of Sentencing Council after 'two-tier justice' row

Shabana Mahmood is proposing that she, and all future Justice Secretaries, will be able to veto Sentencing Council proposals

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2025

Minister to get power to overrule sentencing guidance after ‘two-tier justice’ row

The justice secretary intervened following a row over guidelines over pre-sentence reports for criminals from ethnic minorities

The Independent UK · Sep 1, 2025

I Fought the Law: the tragic, compelling true story behind the ITV show

Julie Hogg was murdered in 1989: this is the story of her mother’s 17 year fight for justice

Evening Standard · Sep 1, 2025

New laws to reduce use of short prison sentences expected within weeks

Courts will be given greater powers to attach conditions to non-custodial sentences.

Evening Standard · Aug 24, 2025