QUENTIN LETTS: Shabana Mahmood's Tory shadow, Robert Jenrick, has had her in all sorts of difficulties over the Sentencing Council's 'two-tier justice' gambit.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner , Home Secretary Yvette Cooper and Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood spoke out in Cabinet as half of those present urged the Chancellor to think again.
The new guidance for judges to consider a criminal's ethnicity before deciding their punishment prompted Shabana Mahmood to write to the independent body to make clear her 'displeasure'.
Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has intervened to try to prevent the release of a convicted triple killer who was jailed for carrying out the country's most notorious gangland executions.