I prosecute and defend the most dangerous criminals. I speak daily with victims of crime.

And I can tell you that there has never been as good a time to be a criminal as under @BorisJohnson’s government. https://twitter.com/borisjohnson/status/1305840465158254594">https://twitter.com/borisjohn...

. @BorisJohnson has refused point blank to resource the courts. His government has cut court capacity, causing a backlog of over half a million cases.

When Covid hit and made things even worse, @BorisJohnson still refused to make money available to assist the courts.

There is now typically a delay of 2 to 3 years between a crime being reported and a case coming to trial. In that time, witnesses’ memories fade. Many lose faith and disappear. So cases collapse.

If I were a guilty criminal, I would raise a toast to @BorisJohnson every day.

“Tougher sentencing” is snake oil. It means nothing when it is taking years to bring people to trial; when the government’s conscious policy is to force witnesses and victims of crime to wait years for a trial, rather than spend a relatively tiny amount on resourcing the courts.