Justice minister defends early release of PC Andrew Harper’s killers amid possible legal challenge – UK politics live

Jake Richards acknowledges ‘unimaginable pain’ of Harper’s family but says government faces an ‘unenviable position’Kemi Badenoch has defended the Conservative party’s decision to allow a former neo-Nazi to stand as a councillor, although she indicated he might not be allowed to become a candidate for parliament.The Tory leader said Joshua Bonehill-Paine had been rehabilitated and now worked to tackle racism and antisemitism.I’m not giving him a national platform, he is standing to be a councillor in Somerset… it is a local platform looking at parking, sorting out bins. I have much higher thresholds for what it takes to be a