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Britain is home to many of the brightest scientists in the world - we will continue to welcome them to the UK and invest in vital research such as space exploration.
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Together we can get Brexit done!
Vote Conservative on December 12th.
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It’s time to unleash Britain’s potential.
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I want to thank the emergency services and members of the public for their immense bravery in responding to this suspected terrorist attack at London Bridge.
This is an appalling incident and all my thoughts are with the victims and their families.
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Tonight our sympathies are with the families of those who lost their lives. Thank you to the emergency services and members of the public who bravely acted to protect others.
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Happy #StAndrewsDay to all Scots across Scotland, the UK and the world today. 🏴
I'm proud to be the Prime Minister of the entire United Kingdom, including Scotland.
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Today I visited London Bridge to thank police officers and first responders following yesterday's tragic attack.
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Happy #StAndrewsDay to all Scots across Scotland, the UK and the world today. 🏴
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I want to pay tribute again to the sheer bravery of those members of the public who went to deal with the attacker spontaneously, putting their own lives at risk.
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We will keep violent offenders and terrorists in jail longer and end the automatic early release system.
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The terrible Khan case has highlighted a complicated area of law. There have been many inaccuracies reported about this case over the last 24 hours. Here are the details (1/16)
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All those regimes have in common is the fact that they apply if the Judge considers the offender to be dangerous (3/16)
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There are 4 distinct sentencing legal regimes that have been confused in this case: Indefinite Sentences for Public Protection (IPP); Pre-08 Extended Sentences for Public Protection (DPP); Post-08 EPPs & Extended Determinate Sentences (EDS) which came into force in Dec 12 (2/16)
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An EPP has two elements: a custodial part and an extended licence period. When EPPs were brought in by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, there was no automatic early release during the custodial part - see s. 247(2)(b) of the original act (4/16)
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In 2008 Labour introduced the Criminal Justice and Immigration Act 2008. This removed the requirement of Parole Board approval. This meant that, for EPPs after 2008, release would be automatic at the halfway point - no matter how dangerous the criminal (5/16)
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The Prison Reform Trust has a helpful summary of how the EPP scheme changed in 2008 prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Exte… (6/16)
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Khan was sentenced by the Crown Court on 9th February 2012. He was considered dangerous by the Judge and so the two possible options available at the time were IPP or Post 2008 EPP. The judge opted for IPP with a minimum term of 8 years (7/16)
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This means Khan would be detained indefinitely after he has served the minimum term unless the Parole Board considered him safe. Khan appealed. The Court of Appeal agreed that he was dangerous but felt that his crime was not serious enough to warrant an IPP (8/16)
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Khan was sentenced under Labour’s old regime. Therefore, he was to be automatically released after serving only half of his sentence (i.e. 8 years). Given time on remand, this meant he was released in December 2018 (10/16)
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Had the 2008 changes to the law not been made he would not have been eligible for automatic early release, instead the Parole Board would have had to decide whether he was safe to be released (11/16)
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However, since the judges still considered him to be dangerous he got an EPP. The Court of Appeal could not have given him an EDS because these were not in force when he committed the offence in December 2010 (9/16).
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Unfortunately, Khan could not be sentenced under the EDS scheme because it was not yet in force in December 2010 when he committed the offence. Had Labour not changed the law in 2008 Khan would not have been automatically released in December 2018 (13/16)
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If Khan had been sentenced under the new EDS scheme there would have been no automatic early release and he would only have been able to ask for Parole Board consideration at 2/3rds of his sentence. Under this system, he could not have been released before Mid 2021. (12/16)
Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Member of Parliament for Uxbridge and South Ruislip.