Former top Tories warn the pensions triple lock is unaffordable but campaigners say pensioners should not be made 'scapegoats' for economic woes.

The Government is launching a sentencing review that will consider options to hand offenders tougher punishments outside of prison as part of efforts to ease overcrowding. Justice Secretary Shabana ...

David Gauke says ‘penal populism’ has spurred a 30-year political competition to impose ever-longer jail terms Charles Hymas is the Home Affairs Editor at The Telegraph. He covers crime, policing, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The UK’s prison overcrowding crisis has been fuelled by politicians‘ attempts to seem “tough on crime”, a major government review ...

During his cabinet career in the Brexit deadlock years 2016 to 2019, David Gauke was the government’s voice of reason. Whenever there was a crisis – which was most days – the cry would go up: “Uncork ...

The United Kingdom has a relatively low corporate tax rate of 20 percent — compared to the US average of 39 percent — and will further cut it to 19 percent in 2017 and to 18 percent in 2020. Financial ...

The Labour government is reforming the justice system to fix the prison overcrowding crisis, with plans for some offenders to spend a third of their sentences behind bars. David Gauke, the former ...

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Former Conservative justice secretary, David Gauke, is now leading a review of sentencing for the new government, aimed at taking the pressure off our prisons. We began by asking him about the current ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Former lord chancellor David Gauke has said he may tune in to Love Island to follow the progress of his former employee Sharon ...