Burnham's Justice Sprint: From IPP Reform to the Harper Killers — and the £4.7bn Tax Raid

Andy Burnham is governing like a man who knows his clock is ticking. In a single weekend, the new Prime Minister pledged to end IPP sentences — a sentencing regime abolished in 2012 that still traps 856 people behind bars — and simultaneously U-turned on the early release scheme to block PC Andrew Harper's killers from walking free. Burnham said he understood "how strongly people feel about this issue," as he excluded anyone convicted of unlawful killing, including all forms of...