Starmer: We'll beat Tories in war on crime

Labour leader vows to claw back poll deficit

- NIGEL NELSON

KEIR Starmer today unveils how Labour will bounce back after languishing 10 points behind the Tories in the polls.

Now beginning his second year as leader, the former chief public prosecutor pledges to end the party’s softly, softly approach on crime with tough sentences for rapists, murderers and street thugs.

Rapists who abduct and kill victims will get whole-life tariffs to help women feel better protected.

And he promises to overturn Tory laws which put statues before people when he becomes PM.

In a Sunday Mirror interview he said: “A starting point of five years for rape while suggesting 10 years for damaging statues is the clearest example of the Government getting its priorities completely wrong.”

JAIL

There will be two years’ jail for attacking shop and transport workers and a legal right for anti-social behaviour victims to have complaints investigated by police.