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That’s a very very good piece.
The lie at the heart of political cries for a tough criminal justice system is that nobody will pay for it, and what budget there was has been cut to the very bare bones across the board...the Police in investigating crime, the CPS in prosecuting crime, the courts in judging and sentencing offenders and the prisons and probation service in dealing with them post conviction
There is an excellent, compassionate, thorough and considered explanation, by a barrister, of how Usman Khan came to be at liberty here. It also shows just how bare-faced Priti Patel and Boris Johnson's lies in blaming Labour are... https://thesecretbarrister.com/2019/11/30/10-thing-you-should-know-about-the-london-bridge-attacker-and-early-release/ It's a ten minute read but arguing the toss without reading it is liable to make anyone look a prat.