A Labour frontbencher has defended a social media post used by the party which claims Rishi Sunak does not think child sex abusers should go to prison
There are two ways to think about Labour's latest attack ad concerning the jailing of child abusers.
The second - as Labour HQ has presumably concluded - is that it's a rather effective tool to get people talking about the number of paedophiles who have not been sent to prison during the last 13 years of Tory-led government.Compassion in Politics, a campaign group working to"clean up" public debate in Britain, called on"This kind of political discourse poisons the water that we all must drink from.
Compassion in Politics has worked with lawyers to create a new bill which would make it a criminal offence for politicians to lie to the public, punishable by a fine or jail.
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