More hypocrisyKeir Starmer has rightly been under fire since Labour last week exploited abused children by publishing a Twitter post claiming Rishi Sunak doesn’t care about protecting children from paedophiles. Sunak is abysmal, but he has no role in the sentencing of offenders – and Starmer himself, as then-Director of Public Prosecutions, played a key role in creating the sentencing guidelines that courts still follow, including specific recommendations on sentencing sex offenders. On 11 July 2013, Emily Thornberry asked Keir Starmer to explain why murderers and rapists were escaping conviction because the CPS were not sending case workers or enough barristers to the court proceedings. The site is provided free of charge but depends on the support of its readers to be viable. If you wish to republish this post for non-commercial use, you are welcome to do so – see here for more.

Source: The Guardian April 11, 2023 16:55 UTC