David Lammy: “the killing and destruction must stop.”

This change closes a long overdue gap and will ensure those who murder their partner face sentences that better reflect the devastating harm they cause.

I think it's important that he's able to serve out his mandate.

I spoke to the Vice President yesterday. I wanted to emphasise a number of things. The first is that our democratic process is working well.

When we look carefully at arrest data, prosecution data, conviction data we do see examples of disproportionality, not just in relation to black communities, Muslim communities, Gypsy Roma, Traveller communities.