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Jeremy Corbyn says not all terrorists should serve full prison sentences after London Bridge attack
JEREMY Corbyn has said not all terrorists should serve their full sentences in prison, after Boris Johnson urged a crackdown in the wake of the London Bridge attack.
The Labour boss said it "depends on the circumstances" and "what they've done in prison".
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The Prime Minister has called for toughening up of laws to make sure that anyone convinced of terror offences should have to serve every day of their sentences, or a minimum of 14 years.
It emerged that Usman Khan, the terrorist in Friday's terrifying attack, had been released from prison last December after he was convinced of a plan to bomb the London stock exchange.
He served just eight years in jail, but his original sentence was meant to be 16.
Mr Corbyn told Sky News' Sophy Ridge on Sunday: "I think it depends on the circumstances, it depends on the sentence but crucially depends on what they’ve done in prison."
But he did back the shooting dead of the terrorist, who was wearing a fake suicide belt during his rampage.
Mr Corbyn, who has previously expressed his disapproval of shoot-to-kill tactics, said: "They had no choice, there was a credible threat of a bomb belt.";
He added: "Police have to take what action they can to defend people."
He will give a speech later this morning where he will blame Tory cuts to public services and the invasion of Iraq for the London Bridge attack.
"You can't keep people safe on the cheap," he will say.
A poll last night revealed only 14 per cent of people think Mr Corbyn is the best candidate to defend Britain from attack, compared to 54 per cent for Boris Johnson.
Elsewhere in the interview he:
- Claimed free movement would not "ever" be able to come to an end
- Said Britain should look at the "size of the Royal family"
- Admitted he wouldn't stay completely neutral in a second Brexit referendum and would cast his own ballot
- Bizarrely claimed the scrapping of the £250 a year marriage tax allowance was NOT a tax rise
- Said he wished the party had acted on anti-Semitism quicker at the start of his reign as leader
- Backed Patrick Vieira to be the next manager of Arsenal
The Labour boss also said he was concerned about the practise of stripping British jihadis like Shamima Begum of their citizenship.
He told the programme: "If you strip away their citizenship, where are they going to go? They are then going to become stateless people roaming around into ungoverned places".
Home Secretary Priti Patel said this morning: "Jeremy Corbyn believes that terrorists should not necessarily serve full prison sentences.
"We believe they should serve every single day of their sentence. Who do you trust to keep you safe?"
STAYING IN NEUTRAL
Mr Corbyn said he would vote in a second Brexit referendum if there was one, despite saying he would campaign to be neutral.
When asked whether he would reveal how he would vote, he said: "You'll have to wait and see."
Mr Corbyn also said he did not think "free movement totally could ever come to an end".
He said this was because of the "relationship between families, between Britain and Europe, the needs of all of our services".
Boris Johnson has said free movement will end after Britain leaves the EU, and he will put in place a points based system instead.
The leftie boss said: "I don't think they voted to have 40,000 nurse vacancies in Britain, I don't think they voted to lose all those European doctors."
CUT THE ROYALS?
After the scandal surrounding Prince Andrew, Mr Corbyn said he would "question the size of the family and all that they do" - and claimed the public were behind him on that.
"I think there's a lot of people attached to the Royal Family," he added.
"I do think the public as a whole would want to see those kind of changes and the debate around the behaviour of Prince Andrew has actually brought that to the fore."
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Mr Corbyn argued that his manifesto was "responsible" and all the spending pledges were in line with spending in France and Germany.
And he bizarrely claimed "we're not raising tax" for lower earners - despite scrapping tax breaks like the £250 a year marriage allowance.
He said: "It’s not a tax rise, there are no tax rises for 95% of the population but think of the benefits you get from it."
And he said he wished the party had "acted on it more rapidly to the beginning and dealt with it at that point".
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The Labour leader at a 2015 debate said: “If you are going to go to prison, go to prison in Norway. It’s comfortable, you will be cured, and you won’t commit another crime.”
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