Ken Clarke Articles

I began Business of the House Questions with the government’s shambolic lobbying bill which will return from the House of Lords next week.  So far we have had a panic pause, a flurry of amendments designed to silence the huge chorus of critical voices and then the...

The Labour party has too often lost major figures at the peak of their careers – from Hugh Gaitskell and Tony Crosland to John Smith and Donald Dewar. Ten years ago, on 20 September 2003, added to their number was Gareth Williams, Lord Williams of Mostyn, Labour’s...

Time to make alternatives to prison a real choice for courts Charles Clarke —The reduction of crime ought to be a central goal of any democratic government. As a wide range of statistics demonstrates, it was a goal at which Labour in office was pretty successful. The...

Last week justice secretary Chris Grayling focused in on the high levels of reoffending by those leaving prison and confirmed its full steam ahead for rehabilitating offenders through a payment by results approach. On one thing he is right – we need to do more to...