Deputy Reform UK leader visits mother jailed for Southport tweet at HMP Peterborough

Reform MP wants to create ‘backstop’ that would allow public to challenge sentences they believe are too severe

Deputy Reform UK leader visits mother jailed for Southport tweet at HMP Peterborough

Reform UK's deputy leader made the claims after visiting Ms Connolly today at HMP Peterborough, where she is serving a 31-month sentence for posting a racist tweet.

She says she’s been manhandled, bruised and starved yet was jailed for a single tweet – we are truly living in Starmer’s Stasi Britain

If the penal system is being recruited to treat a particular prisoner harshly to cover up the state’s failings then that is unconscionable

Reform’s deputy leader calls for legal action when petitioners deem sentences too harsh