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THE INDEPENDENT’S VIEW: Editorial: The discredited law of open-ended sentencing was abolished as ‘unjust’ 14 years ago, yet it continues to blight lives and overwhelm prisons. Ending IPP injustice for the 2,400 prisoners still denied a release date is not about being soft on crime – it is about upholding…

Exclusive: David Blunkett warns Keir Starmer Britain’s youth are in danger of becoming ‘lost generation’ on his watch

Thomas White, who was driven to schizophrenia and psychosis under an abolished IPP jail term, told his sister ‘I would have died in prison’ after he finally arrived in hospital

PROFILE: Keir Starmer is floundering in the polls, and Labour needs rescuing from the growing threat of Reform. Sean O’Grady asks whether the ‘King of the North’ could be its knight in shining armour, even after his Westminster bid was blocked by Starmer

Brexit removed many checks and balances from the UK government. That’s why leaving the European convention on human rights would be a huge risk, says constitutional expert Vernon Bogdanor

The Labour peer urges the Government to look at a welfare-to-work programme he introduced as employment secretary back in 1998

Seven times more fathers died by suicide within their baby’s first 1,001 days than mothers

Legislation passed in July paves the way to set up the body which will oversee the professional men’s game in England.

LABOUR’S tinkering with European human rights laws is “really dangerous”, according to the head of a leading civil liberties group.