CONSERVATIVE
New Forest East

JUSTICE – SENTENCING BILL - 16 September 2025

JUSTICE – SENTENCING BILL - 16 September 2025

[Josh Babarinde: The last Conservative Government crashed our criminal justice system, and ever since it is victims who have been paying the price. The shadow Justice Secretary spoke today of surrender, but who was it that surrendered victims to years-long waits for trials? They did. Who surrendered victims to reoffending rates through the roof? They did. Who surrendered victims to a failing tagging regime? They did. Who surrendered victims to their own early release scheme, with no specific exclusions for domestic abusers? They did. This is not justice; this is Conservative chaos.]

Sir Julian Lewis: Will the hon. Gentleman just remind the House with whom the Conservatives were in coalition for several years when they started their 14-year term?

[Josh Babarinde: I thank the right hon. Gentleman for his intervention, but should he look at the figures for 2015, he will see that all the things that I have described surged under the last Conservative Government. It is chaos and it cannot go on. …]