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Shabana Mahmood threatens law change after 'two-tier' row

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Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood has told the Sentencing Council she will review its powers.

The changes would make the ethnicity or faith of an offender a bigger factor when deciding whether to jail them.

Ministers do not have the power to overturn the guidance, but in a letter Mahmood urged the council's chairman to reconsider "as soon as possible" Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick said the new rules were "anti-white" and ' anti-Christian '.

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informal

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English

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