‘Two-tier justice under two-tier Keir!’ Robert Jenrick tears into ‘outrageous’ sentencing guidelines in fresh attack on Shabana Mahmood
Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick has hit out at the Government’s latest move towards “two-tier justice under two-tier Keir” after issuing new guidelines for sentencing judges.
Clashing with Jenrick in the Commons following his challenge on the guidelines, Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood claimed that there will “never be a two-tier sentencing approach under my watch or under this Labour Government”.
Discussing the guidelines on GB News, Jenrick criticised the “completely outrageous and ludicrous” move and claimed the advice on sentencing shows a “bias against straight white men”.
Jenrick told GB News: “These new sentencing guidelines issued by the Sentencing Council that we uncovered show that you’re less likely to have a custodial sentence if you’re a woman, if you are trans, if you are neurodiverse, if you’re an ethnic minority, if you’re from a minority faith group, which presumably means anyone who isn’t Christian, and it’s a bias against straight white men.
“It’s completely outrageous and ludicrous, and it needs to stop.”
In a pointed attack on Mahmood, Jenrick claimed that the Justice Secretary “should have known about this before”, urging the Government to “intervene” and U-turn.
Jenrick said: “Frankly, the Justice Secretary should have known about this before. She has a personal representative on the very Sentencing Council that issued these guidance – there was no objection raised whatsoever.
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“The Government has got to intervene and stop this, because I don’t want a two-tier justice system.”
Expressing his outrage at Labour’s latest example of “two-tier justice”, Jenrick declared that it is in “black and white” that Britain is becoming two-tier under “two-tier Keir”.
Jenrick declared: “There was a time for months and months where people like myself, people like your viewers, frankly, were being told when they said that there was a two-tier justice system, that they were wrong.
“Well, here it is in black and white. The law of the land. The Sentencing Council have said it themselves, there is two-tier justice in this country, two-tier justice under two-tier Keir.”
As GB News host Ellie Costello highlighted Mahmood’s displeasure at the guidelines, Jenrick claimed that either Mahmood “already knew” about the new guidelines, or was “asleep at the wheel”, displaying her “incompetence”.
Jenrick concluded: “I don’t know why Shabana Mahmood would say that, because on the morning that I raised this, an email was sent out to every magistrate in the country telling them that they should start doing this.
“So either Shabana Mahmood knew about this and agreed with it and that it is Labour Party policy, or she was completely asleep at the wheel, frankly, and totally incompetent, because one of the most senior officials in her department, who was at the very meeting in which this happened, no objection was raised.”
He added: “So she has real questions to answer. I don’t want a two tier justice system in this country. We believe in the rule of law, and the heart of the rule of law is equality under the law, where you and I are treated the same irrespective of the colour of our skin or the faith that we have.
“That is what we need to have. And Shabana Mahmood, the Lord Chancellor, needs to do something about this right now.”