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Kemi Badenoch will tell Andy Burnham to bring MPs back from their summer holidays to keep convicted killers and rapists behind bars. The Conservative leader will use a press conference on Tuesday morning to insist the Prime Minister pause Labour’s hugely controversial early release scheme after criticism from PC Andrew Harper’s widow.

Mrs Badenoch warned that thousands of dangerous criminals, including paedophiles, burglars and thugs, are still set to get out early, because the law has not been changed. This has led to calls for emergency legislation to keep some of the country’s most dangerous lags, including grooming gang members, behind bars.

But with Parliament not due to return until September 1, ministers will only have 24 hours to table new laws before chaos erupts.

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