Andy Burnham has got cop killers’ release badly wrong – now he must listen and put it right

Listen, PM PM Andy Burnham is at last said to be considering a U-turn over the early release of the killers of PC Andrew Harper. It’s not a moment too soon. Our new Prime Minister likes to paint himself as a champion against injustice. So how on earth did he ever end up on the...

Our new fashion-forward PM may have been criticised for spending £80 on a T-shirt, but Andy Burnham’s love for an historic 150-year-old British brand have seen sales skyrocket

Archie York died when an explosion caused by drug dealer Reece Galbraith ripped through his Benwell home

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch described the move as another "u-turn"

Andy Burnham accused of grooming gangs ‘shambles’ as PM launches early release review  GB News

SeventyFour/Shutterstock The UK may have a new prime minister, but the problem of prison overcrowding in England and Wales remains. Andy Burnham recently clarified the details of the Sentencing Act 2026, which aims to release prisoners earlier than usual. Like other PMs before him, Burnham faces a difficult choice bet

Two men convicted of PC Andrew Harper's manslaughter could still be released from prison next year.

Andy Burnham must resist his urge to confiscate your ‘unearned’ wealth  The Times

It’s time for a new ‘Beveridge’ moment for social care in Scotland and the rest of the UK

Some readers say the move to exclude rapists and sex offenders still doesn’t go far enough, while others argue ministers have no real alternative while prisons stay full

Andy Burnham inherited the crisis in our prison system – but the solution cannot be to further endanger the women and girls who have survived violence It’s time to be blunt: the government is about to expose hundreds of vulnerable women to the risk of death or serious injury. Survivors of domestic abuse, including wome

Such a move could potentially raise £19billion and go a long way to funding Burnham’s cost-of-living agenda, writes Record View.

Justice secretary 'deeply sorry' PC Harper's killers could be released early  ITVX

CAMPAIGNERS warned the government on Tuesday that its early release scheme will only buy it “a little time” before the system runs out of cells again. The Howard League for Prison Reform said plans to release some 5,000 inmates early under sentencing changes to tackle overcrowded jails will do “nothing to head off futu

Harper's law changed Britain - so why should the killers who inspired it walk free? writes Andy Hughes  lbc.co.uk

Any association with “the Epstein world” renders you unfit for even an advisory role at Mayor Zohran Mamdani's City Hall — but similar ties to actual terrorists is no bar to even a top position.

PC Andrew Harper, who was 28 when he was killed, and his wife Lissie (Picture: PA) Two men who were passengers in the car when PC Andrew Harper was killed in 2019 will be released early from prison. Uproar over the potential for Albert Bowers and Jessie Cole’s early release led to Prime Minister Andy Burnham pausing th

In getting into a sexual relationship with his 13-year-old niece, a man sexually exploited her, raped her during staycations and “punished” her with sex acts when he grew jealous about a schoolmate she was dating. The 38-year-old Singaporean man, who cannot be named to protect the victim’s identity, was sentenced to 21

The man got jealous when his niece began dating a schoolmate and threatened to leak her nude photos.