Sir Keir Starmer: 'I stand by every word' says Labour leader on Rishi Sunak attack ad

Sir Keir Starmer has doubled down connected a arguable onslaught connected Rishi Sunak's grounds connected crime, saying "I basal by each word".

A Labour advert claimed the PM did not deliberation adults convicted of enactment assaults connected children should spell to prison.

The Labour person said helium is backing his party's presumption "no substance however squeamish it mightiness marque immoderate feel".

In response, a Tory root accused Sir Keir of failing to prosecute immoderate of the "worst radical successful Britain".

"[Sir Keir] thinks the rights of criminals trump those of the law-abiding majority," they added.

It comes amid reports Labour volition people further onslaught adverts this week connected different issues arsenic portion of the physique up to section elections successful England, which volition instrumentality spot connected 4 May.

The Times says the onslaught ads volition blasted the premier curate "personally" for "crashing the system and for soaring owe and assembly taxation rates".

Other adverts already published arsenic portion of the bid person focused connected theft and weapon crime, besides featuring the representation and signature of Rishi Sunak.

Writing successful the Daily Mail, Sir Keir blames the authorities for a fig of failures connected crime, highlighting debased prosecution rates for rape and burglary.

He writes different issues the authorities has not dealt with see the tribunal backlog, fraud against older people, and fly-tipping - which has turned "neighbourhoods into junkyards".

"Rishi Sunak and successive Tory governments person fto criminals get distant with it due to the fact that they don't get it," helium writes.

"They person ne'er lived successful those neighbourhoods, they don't recognize people's lives, they person ne'er walked successful those shoes."

Highlighting his erstwhile relation arsenic the manager of nationalist prosecutions (DPP) successful England and Wales - the idiosyncratic who leads the Crown Prosecution Service and 1 of the country's starring ineligible officials, a relation helium held from 2008 to 2013 - Sir Keir writes his life's enactment has "been astir making our state safer and much secure".

He said helium would marque "zero apologies" for "being blunt and that erstwhile 4,500 abusers aren't sent to prison, radical privation answers alternatively than excuses from politicians".

The enactment is keen to crook Sir Keir's clip arsenic manager of nationalist prosecutions into an asset, but the Conservatives are determined to marque it a liability.

A Tory root accused Sir Keir of failing to prosecute immoderate of the "worst radical successful Britain" and indicated that they were conscionable getting started connected scrutinising his grounds portion DPP.

Labour sources said the enactment volition present beryllium turning its attraction this week to the outgo of surviving - though Mr Sunak himself volition stay successful their firing line.

The advert astir jailing those who sexually battle children has drawn disapproval by politicians from each large parties - and caused an interior enactment wrong Labour.

Lord David Blunkett, who served arsenic location caput nether Tony Blair and has sat successful the House of Lords since 2015, said it was "deeply violative to get down successful the gutter to combat authorities successful this way".

Calling for the advert to beryllium withdrawn, helium said it was "grotesque and offensive", and it was "absurd" to reason that the premier curate should "take idiosyncratic work for the sentencing policies of judges".

Lib Dem MP Munira Wilson said: "I was beauteous disgusted by it erstwhile I saw it past night. This is not an onslaught advertisement my enactment would use."

Scottish National Party MP John Nicolson said the station was "nauseating" and that it "cheapened and debased" politics.

Judges and magistrates, alternatively than the premier curate of the day, are liable for handing retired sentences.

The figures Labour highlighted screen the play since 2010, 5 years earlier Mr Sunak entered Parliament. He did not go premier curate until October past year.

Sir Keir was DPP from 2008 to 2013, meaning the figures besides screen 3 of the years helium was successful the post.