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On our radar Labour Conference · 29 September 2026
New PM, Same Question: What About Justice?
Like every sector, the criminal justice sector sits inside a national story, and that story now has a new author: Britain's seventh Prime Minister in ten years. We'll be keeping an eye on him for you, starting with his first Labour conference speech in Liverpool on 29 September.
Watch the full speech
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