00:00The fact that Andy Burnham said he's pausing it, actually he's not pausing it in terms of the legislation.
00:04Despite everything we told them, despite us warning them on behalf of victims that the legislation they were passing
00:09was going to let rapists, paedophiles, child groomers and other very serious criminals out of prison early,
00:15they passed it anyway. And that legislation has already been commenced, these releases will start in September.
00:20Without changing the law, those people are getting out and that's what we're making clear today,
00:24he has to commit to changing the law in September and in the interim he can do something called revoke
00:29a commencement
00:29order, it's a technical thing you can do in Parliament to make sure that those releases don't proceed.
00:34But you can only do that on a temporary basis and I think actually the victims need certainty.
00:38They've spent weeks now with these letters hanging over them, telling that their offenders may be getting out earlier.
00:43He should just be telling people now, no, we are not going to let out serious offenders early.
00:48No pause, no review, giving that commitment right now.
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