UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has criticised Labour's sentencing reforms, arguing that people convicted of rape, child sexual abuse and grooming gang offences should not be released from prison before completing the terms handed down by the courts.
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In a post on X, Badenoch accused the government of putting victims at risk by allowing some serious offenders to leave prison earlier under the Sentencing Act 2026, which changes the automatic release point for certain determinate sentences from two-thirds of a prison term to half.
"No rapist, paedophile, or grooming gang member should be let out of prison early." Badenoch wrote.
