Sir Keir Starmer today defended the 31-month prison sentence for a Tory councillor's wife who was jailed over her social media rant about the Southport murders.
The Prime Minister was quizzed about Lucy Connolly's case after her appeal against her sentence was rejected yesterday.
The 42-year-old mother had posted on X/Twitter on the day of the murder of three children by Axel Rudakubana in Southport, Merseyside, in July last year.
She wrote at the time: 'Mass deportation now, set fire to all the f****** hotels full of the bastards for all I care… if that makes me racist so be it.'
Rupert Lowe, the ex-Reform UK MP who now sits as an independent in the House of Commons, this afternoon grilled Sir Keir about Connolly's sentence.
