00:00In just a matter of hours, two-tier sentencing guidelines that are biased against men, against
00:05white people, against Christians, are going to come into force in our country.
00:10And the justice secretary has failed to resolve this challenge.
00:14We have been urging her for weeks to bring forward legislation to override the Sentencing
00:20Council's guidelines.
00:21We produced our own bill and asked her to support it.
00:24She rejected that.
00:26And so, as of tomorrow morning, people's cases are going to be being heard in this way.
00:32And this is going to be unfair, discriminatory, and it's going to cost the taxpayer millions
00:37of pounds for the privilege.
00:39The justice secretary has failed.
00:41In fact, she's been humiliated by the Sentencing Council.
00:44And whatever she does now is going to be too little, too late.
00:47Well, I think she's failed.
00:49I think that she has failed totally in her duty to uphold the rule of law, because the
00:54rule of law, at its essence, is about equality before the law.
00:57She didn't even know about these sentencing guidelines until we raised them with her.
01:01She didn't take up our bill.
01:03She said that she would bring forward emergency legislation.
01:06She hasn't.
01:07And now, from tomorrow morning, Tuesday, these new guidelines have come into force.
01:13And as of now, Parliament has not even seen legislation.
01:17So we're going to be living tomorrow under two-tier justice brought forward by this two-tier
01:23Labour government.
