PMQs: Johnson and Starmer on falling rape convictions
The Labour leader has asked the prime minister to explain why the number of rape convictions and prosecutions has fallen to a “record low” in recent years.
Boris Johnson told Sir Keir Starmer the government had been investing in the Crown Prosecution Service, and was "imposing tougher sentences" for sexual crimes and "it would have been good" to have received support from Labour.
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