In an unprecedented intervention, 50 police leaders representing every force in the UK united to condemn Labour's soft justice reforms.

Downing Street said it was 'not possible' to exempt 'one or two offenders' convicted of manslaughter amid an outcry at the possibility of Jessie Cole and Albert Bowers being freed.

The Prime Minister is said to have been examining whether to exempt people who kill emergency service personnel from a controversial scheme to free up space in massively…