Labour's populist pantomime over sentencing rules plays into the hands of the right | Janey Starling

Sentencing Council’s updated imposition of community and custodial sentences’ guideline signalled a change in sentencing.

It would have required magistrates and judges to consult a pre-sentence report before deciding whether to imprison someone of an ethnic or religious minority.

The UN has described our justice system as systemically racist, and a 2017 review conducted by the now minister David Lammy acknowledged its “racial bias”.