Sentencing Council Guidelines

Jack Rankin Excerpts

Tuesday 1st April 2025 Commons Chamber

[Jake Richards (Rother Valley) (Lab)]

The Sentencing Council was created in April 2010; a month later, the Conservatives came to power. If, as so many on the Conservative Benches seem to think, the Sentencing Council is a shadowy, revolutionary group of activist judges dangerously undermining the British way of life, why on earth did they not do anything about it?

[Jack Rankin (Windsor) (Con)]

I agree with that.

[Jake Richards]

I think they agree with that now—interesting. Does the Lord Chancellor agree that this episode shows that our constitution is working? Parliament is sovereign, and if Parliament seeks to change this guidance, under this Government it will.