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Government rejects ‘Hillsborough law’ central to campaign by victims’ families

Ministers reject families’ call for legally enforceable ‘duty of candour’ but signs charter to commit to transparency after public tragedies

The Guardian - UK

Taxpayers foot £300k energy bill for MPs’ second homes

Exclusive: MPs ‘living in a different world’, say campaigners as spike in prices is covered by public purse

The Independent UK

Foreign prisoners could serve shorter sentences than Britons in bid to ease overcrowding crisis

The Independent has repeatedly highlighted the overcrowding crisis facing Britain’s prisons, with inmates crammed into cells for up to 23 hours a day and ministers considering freeing prisoners early to make space

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Plan to send inmates abroad shows prison system ‘completely broken’ by Tory failures, union chief warns

Prisons yet to recover from austerity ‘race to the bottom’, with nine Tory justice secretaries achieving ‘nothing but decline’, warns Andrea Albutt

The Independent UK

Government blasted for refusing to resentence inmates trapped in jail with no hope of release

‘Unfinished business’: Justice committee chair Bob Neill welcomes licence reforms but calls for government to resentence IPP prisoners

The Independent UK

Over 1,800 offenders to have indefinite jail sentences terminated, says MoJ

Imprisonment for public protection sentences will now have an end date under changes in England and Wales

The Guardian - UK

Government to discuss tougher sentences for domestic and knife killers

‘For some evil people, murder is the brutal final act of a controlling and coercive relationship with their partner,’ said a government minister

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Sending prisoners abroad to cost at least £200m and won’t happen until 2026, government’s own report warns

Justice secretary Alex Chalk plans to send prisoners to jails abroad to ease overcrowding

The Independent UK

Revealed: 16 years in prison for stealing a bike and no hope of release – as 7 trapped in jail kill themselves

Exclusive: Lord David Blunkett called for Alex Chalk to ‘give hope’ to prisoners trapped on IPP sentences as the shocking death toll was revealed

The Independent UK

Chalk vows to work with Labour MP who says public advocate plan not good enough

Labour former minister Maria Eagle said the Government’s current plans are ‘nowhere near good enough’.

The Independent UK

Criminals released from prison ‘left free to kill’ as overstretched probation service in crisis

Exclusive: 59 offenders being monitored after leaving prison went on to be convicted of murder in just one year – with at least five cases blamed on failings in an overstretched probation service

The Independent UK

Lib Dems seize on Braverman’s unpopularity to win over ‘blue wall’

Party campaigners call home secretary ‘one of our best recruiting tools’ as Tory voters voice dismay

The Guardian - UK

Sunak: Armistice Day Palestinian protest ‘provocative and disrespectful’

The Metropolitan Police has resisted calls to ban the march but has urged organisers to call it off.

The Independent UK

Tiaras and pageantry for Charles’ first King’s Speech

The Gold Stick in Waiting, the Princess Royal and the Rouge Dragon Pursuivant took part in the grandest of ceremonies.

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British veteran poppy seller ‘punched’ during pro-Palestine protests at train station

The 78-year-old veteran said: "As I bent down someone punched me in the back and then I got another punch in my side"

The Independent UK

Veterans warned not to hold counter demos as justice minister joins calls to cancel pro-Palestine march

Organisers insist they will continue ‘peacefully marching, as planned’ on Armistice Day

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman accused of ‘trying to get fired’ with ‘dangerous’ Palestine protest remarks

Home secretary ‘goading’ PM into sacking her, says ex-adviser – as Tory peer attacks ‘arsonist’

The Independent UK

Chalk latest top Tory to distance himself from Braverman homelessness comments

Prime Minister Rishi Sunak refused to repeat the Home Secretary’s remarks on Monday, as did Energy Secretary Claire Coutinho.

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The Independent UK

Justice Secretary urges Pro-Palestinian groups to heed Met call on march

Alex Chalk distanced himself from the Home Secretary’s language of ‘hate march’ to describe the rallies.

The Guardian - UK

Amnesty urges police not to ban pro-Palestinian march in London

Human rights body calls on Met not to bow to ‘political pressure’ over planned protest on Armistice Day

The Independent UK

Suella Braverman plan to stop tents for homeless people junked from Kings Speech by No 10

Rishi Sunak refused to back his home secretary’s much-criticised claim rough-sleeping a ‘lifestyle choice’

Evening Standard

London Tory MP slams Suella Braverman over 'hate march' and homeless 'lifestyle choice' remarks

Health Secretary Steve Barclay refused to back her controversial comments on homeless people living in tents on the street

The Independent UK

Jail sentences to end for thousands of abusive men under plans to tackle overcrowding crisis

Exclusive: Government plans to stop judges sending criminals convicted of harassment, stalking and revenge porn to prison – but campaigners warn they could slip through the net

The Independent UK

Ministers cut the amount of time offenders have to declare convictions

Offenders who have committed serious sexual, violent, or terrorist offences are excluded from the changes.

The Guardian - UK

Subpostmasters betrayed, contaminated blood victims forgotten: why is Britain so bad at righting wrongs?

Interminable public inquiries won’t give the victims of medical scandals and miscarriages of justice their lives back , says Guardian columnist Simon Jenkins

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