The removal of the minimum requirement for the early removal scheme should be accelerated, the ‘deport now, appeal later’ policy should be expanded, and the Government should remove new visas for countries that are not cooperating
The Government’s proposals risk a rushed abolition of one of our most fundamental and historic rights – and removing one of the key features that holds up public trust in the judicial system – for a hurried attempt at backlog cutting that is unlikely to work.
My biggest concern over all of this is that it proves to be a distraction from a bigger issue – strengthening the capacity of the probation service, whose workload is about to increase hugely.
Eliminating juries under the guise of efficiency would only benefit one institution: the State.
Confronted with a choice between cutting the least-defensible welfare spending or letting the entire rest of the state fall to pieces, it turns out Labour aren’t that different from us.
The Sentencing Council and the Government would have you believe that they resolved the problem themselves. That is not true. It was our legal action, supported by Robert Jenrick, that made both them think again.
If she passes emergency legislation to overrule the Sentencing Council, a legion of Conservative excuse-makers will cry out in terror – but probably not, alas, be silenced.
Until we cut back the number of public bodies and give Ministerial departments the tools they need to properly grip ‘Whitehall’s wild west’, the hundreds of bodies that already exist could drift further out of view of departments and the public.
From working with Michael Gove and Boris Johnson as a special adviser, Henry Newman elaborates on how getting things done in Government is much harder than people ever imagine.
The way that Conservative administrations since 2010 have dealt with incarceration is an almost perfect playbook for how not to lead His Majesty’s Opposition in the future.
In the short term, there is no escaping the need for more cash, both to improve staff retention rates and ensure jails are able to equip inmates for life on the outside.
Her history is confused but some may still be persuaded by her argument that the judiciary is too left-wing and Conservative ministers should be able to appoint more ideologically sympathetic candidates.
Over 14 years of government by a party I voted for (and am a member of), the prison service has been destroyed by wonkery, wokery, and criminally stupid austerity cuts.
The Ministry of Justice is providing funding to a group for a campaign that accuses the Government of “whipping up hate”.
We were the future of law and order once. Now is the time to seize back the ground.