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Could Jeff Bezos face jail under Labour’s knife reforms?

19 February 2025

9:33 PM

19 February 2025

9:33 PM

It’s a gaffe day with Sir Keir Starmer’s Labour lot and now the spotlight is on policing minister Diana Johnson. The Labour MP took to the airwaves this morning to sell Home Secretary Yvette Cooper’s announcement that the maximum prison sentence for people selling knives to children under 18 will be increased in light of the Southport murders – from six months to two years in prison.

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