Tories slam government for allowing the early release of sex offenders
SHADOW Justice Minister Dr Kieran Mullan has criticised the government for allowing Hadush Kebatu to enter the UK and for legislating for the early release from prison of many sex offenders.
On the deportation of Kebatu, he told GB News: “There are two things I’d like to say about that. The first is that he should never have been here in the first place, and that we need to deliver a clear plan, that we’ve got to deport these people within a week when they arrive through a safe third country or their country of origin.
“We’ve made clear what we will do whatever it takes, leaving the ECHR, abolishing immigration tribunals, to allow us to do that.
“The second thing I would say is that this vile offender, and as the Home Secretary described, a vile criminal, was responsible for committing sexual assault offences. And at the very day that the government is saying that they’re glad that this person is out of the country and off our streets, they will be legislating to enable more than two thirds of the people who are sent to prison for sexual assault to get out of prison earlier.
“That is a disgrace, that is a betrayal of victims of offences just like the ones he committed, and many, many more, I’m afraid. And so the government is speaking out of both sides of its face.
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“It wants to criticise people like this quite rightly, and say that they shouldn’t be on our streets at the same time as legislating to let very many of them out of prison earlier.”
On a report that the government will miss its housebuilding target, Dr Mullan said: “It’s absolutely not a surprise. I’m in London today. Parliament’s in London. We see across London a complete collapse in housebuilding under the Labour Mayor.
“Labour came in without a plan for delivering new housebuilding in this country. I see in my own area, a rural constituency which is already struggling to meet housing targets that they’ve been further increased, yet in London, where there is acres and acres of grey ground, brown built land, disused spaces that we could be building on, they lowered the housing targets.
“A complete nonsense, and at the same time, they’re not doing anything to help people get on the housing ladder. We put forward the plan to abolish stamp duty for people’s primary residence. That’s the kind of thing that will get the housing market moving and shows that we have ideas that are actually going to make a difference.
“At the same time, Labour is just completely floundering on what was actually one of their key election pledges.”
