Labour’s ‘law and order’ attack ad backfires

Oh dear. It seems that Labour have been caught trying to be too clever by half with their latest anti-Tory attack ad. The Starmer army proudly put out a hard-hitting graphic last night, which read: ‘Do you think adults convicted of sexually assaulting children should go to prison? Rishi Sunak doesn’t’ alongside a smiling photo of the Prime Minister. The party says that its basis for this tweet is figures from the Ministry of Justice which show that 4,500 adults convicted of sexually assaulting children since 2010 have served no prison time.

Such a claim is dubious, to say the least. For a start, Sunak was only elected in 2015 and has held the premiership for less than six months: to hold him personally responsible for judicial sentencing under David Cameron is quite the stretch. But Mr S is more intrigued by Labour’s curious decision to open up this can of worms, given the fuss they made over Boris Johnson’s attack on Sir Keir Starmer’s record as Director of Public Prosecutions.