Peers are set to debate proposals for a resentencing exercise for offenders who remain stuck on sentences of imprisonment for public protection which have no release date.
Back in 2003, David Blunkett, then Labour home secretary, introduced imprisonment for public protection sentences - an indefinite jail term that Thomas White was hit with after stealing a mobile phone.
It comes as 2.8 million people are currently economically inactive due to long-term sickness - the highest level since the early 1990s. Most cite mental health or musculoskeletal conditions
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Senior Labour figures have joined a backlash over Sir Keir Starmer’s plans to eliminate fox hunting, warning the crackdown is “misguided” and could cost him the rural vote.