UK Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has criticised Labour's sentencing reforms, arguing that people convicted of rape, child sexual abuse and grooming gang offences should not be released from prison before completing the terms handed down by the courts.

The opposition leader, writing exclusively in the Daily Mail, says Labour's measures in the Sentencing Act, due to come into force from September, are 'frankly disgusting'.

No rapist, paedophile or child groomer should ever be let out early from prison. But Labour's Sentencing Act means many offenders are being released much earlier than their court…