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19 Aug 2021 Home affairs

Violent misogyny does not exist on the fringes – it’s a daily threat to women’s lives

Half-hearted legislation to subject gun license applicants to a social media check will remain ineffective unless misogynistic motivations behind the violence are acknowledged.

17 Aug 2021 Home affairs

Misogynistic incel culture must be treated as violent extremism

Responsibility must be placed on online platforms to prevent this toxic ideology from gaining credence and indoctrinating more young men.

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27 Jul 2021 Home affairs

Bar Council slams "short term fix" on courts

The Bar Council has responded to new measures announced by the Government today regarding courts.

21 Jul 2021 Home affairs

Years of austerity and deprivation has allowed crime to thrive while robbing children of their bright futures

Community policing and trust takes investment of both time and money, which are two things that our police forces have been starved of.

19 Jul 2021 Home affairs

The Nationality and Borders Bill risks exposing significantly more migrants to destitution and exploitation

The Bill will remove a large part of the social safety net within the asylum system by denying migrants access to public funds. We are determined to make the case for a fairer and more efficient immigration system.

09 Jul 2021 Home affairs

The Nationality and Borders Bill will make a rotten system worse

We need a fair and efficient asylum processes for everyone, more safe routes and support for people to rebuild their lives in Britain. This bill fails on all counts.

09 Jul 2021 Home affairs

Under the Nationality and Borders Bill, I could not become an NHS doctor

If I were fleeing for my life today, I would be classified as an “irregular” asylum seeker and summarily removed from the country. Refugees deserve a fair and compassionate asylum system.

08 Jul 2021 Home affairs

David Cameron and Theresa May battled modern slavery – now Boris Johnson is enabling it

Priti Patel pledged to build a system “where criminality is not rewarded”. Yet the Nationality and Borders Bill does exactly that.

05 Jul 2021 Home affairs

Government can help end the scourge of domestic abuse by taking robust action on perpetrators

There are proven methods to change the behaviour of those who commit violent crimes against women. Government must include long-term funding for these strategies in the comprehensive spending review

05 Jul 2021 Home affairs

We must introduce buffer zones to stop the harassment of women outside abortion clinics

Images of women having to walk past people holding out plastic babies and telling them they’re murderers do not belong in England.

05 Jul 2021 Home affairs

Smarter sentencing is not harsher sentencing

The Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill will see people convicted of more serious offences spending a lot longer in prison, but there is no evidence to support this. Instead, government should improve education and other rehabilitative opportunities in prisons.

25 Jun 2021 Home affairs

The government must listen to young people on the best ways to tackle knife crime

Back in 2019, the Youth Select Committee gathered evidence for our inquiry, 'Our Generation’s Epidemic: Knife Crime', following a UK-wide ballot of more than a million young people aged 11 to 18.

22 Jun 2021 Home affairs

The government has failed women – we need deeds not just words to turn the tide on systematic rape failures

The Rape Review didn’t come close to meeting the scale of the challenge in the criminal justice system. We need a tangible, urgent plan to address what has effectively become the decriminalisation of rape in this country.

15 Jun 2021 Home affairs

Priti Patel Says "Deeply Alarming" Daniel Morgan Report Finds "Litany Of Mistakes" By Metropolitan Police

Priti Patel has described a report into the police handling of the murder of Daniel Morgan as "deeply alarming" and said the failures had been "devastating" for his family.

08 Jun 2021 Home affairs

The UK must be a place of sanctuary for refugees

My Bill would enable child refugees to bring their parents and siblings to join them in the UK, as well as allowing adult refugees to be joined by their children.

24 May 2021 Home affairs

Ensuring access to justice for all is essential for a functioning democracy

If the government is serious about levelling up, it must invest in key local services, of which the courts are an integral component.

18 May 2021 Home affairs

Locked up in lockdown: the devastating effect of Covid on the prison population

Confined to their cells for 23 hours a day and curbs places on education and therapy sessions. The pandemic has taken its toll on prisoners and staff, and prompted renewed warnings that many of Britain’s jails are not fit for purpose.

16 May 2021 Home affairs

Gypsy, Roma and Traveller groups fear new government measures could harm their nomadic way of life

Unless the UK government provides more legal campsites, its plans to toughen up crime legislation could pose an existential threat to the Gypsy, Roma and Traveller way of life and breach their human rights, campaigners say.

29 Apr 2021 Home affairs

Dog theft should be made a specific criminal offence

There is no real deterrent to stop these criminals and no evidence that these crimes are taken seriously.

27 Apr 2021 Home affairs

Successful integration is the key to an effective asylum system

There are currently significant barriers to successful integration for asylum seekers. Local authorities need more tools and funding to welcome refugees and help them rebuild their lives.

22 Apr 2021 Home affairs

Boris Johnson should keep to his word, and choke off any attempts to introduce voter ID

“If I am ever asked, on the streets of London, or in any other venue, public or private, to produce my ID card as evidence that I am who I say I am… then I will take that card out of my wallet and physically eat it in the presence of whatever emanation of the state has demanded that I produce it.”

19 Mar 2021 Home affairs

Criminalising street harassment and kerb crawling is a much needed first step to keep women and girls safe

Currently it’s not a criminal offence for a man in a vehicle to follow a woman or girl; call out to her, film her, try to get her into the vehicle, pester her. That is terrifying and should be an offence punishable by taking away his driving licence.

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17 Mar 2021 Education

Why the powers of the Victims’ Commissioner are not enough

27 Jan 2021 Home affairs

MPs must vote against ‘licence to kill’ Bill

The Covert Human Intelligence Sources Bill still gives far too many public bodies sweeping powers to grant total legal immunity for informants to commit crimes.