Labour’s ‘soft justice’ reforms will see just 0.3 per cent of shoplifters sentenced each year ending up behind bars, new data shows.
Shocking figures uncovered by the Conservatives indicate thousands of shoplifters a year will dodge jail thanks to sentencing changes which came into force last month.
It comes just days after Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer boasted there were early signs that the post-pandemic shoplifting epidemic appeared to be coming to an end.
The Tories predicted the Government’s criminal justice reforms will actually make retail theft even worse, dubbing them ‘a shoplifters’ charter’.
Labour’s reforms strongly discourage judges from imposing jail terms of
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