Labour MP Backs Lowe's Calls to Free Lucy Connolly

Labour MP breaks ranks to call on Keir Starmer to release Lucy Connolly

Labour MP Mary Glindon has labelled the 31-month prison sentence handed out to Lucy Connolly for a racially inciteful tweet as 'unduly harsh'.

Labour MP calls for Tory councillor's wife jailed over racist post to be freed

A Labour MP has called for the wife of a Tory councillor to be freed after she was jailed for a tweet about the Southport attacks.

Labour MP backs Lowe's calls to free Lucy Connolly

The case of Lucy Connolly, the wife of a Tory councillor who was jailed over an offensive tweet, has sparked outrage across the country – and now even a Labour MP is calling for her release. Mary Glindon, MP for Newcastle upon Tyne East and Wallsend, has put her name to an early day motion

Question Time audience member schooled over Lucy Connolly sentencing

A Question Time audience member was ‘schooled’ by a barrister after complaining about the sentence handed to Lucy Connolly. This week, Connolly, the wife of a Tory councillor, lost an appeal against her 31-month prison sentence for an online rant about migrants on the day of the Southport attacks. Delivering his judgement on Tuesday at the Court of Appeal, Lord Justice Holroyd said there was “no arguable basis” that Connolly’s original sentence …

Labour MP breaks ranks with Keir Starmer and sides with Rupert Lowe to call for Lucy Connolly's release

A Labour MP has become the first from Sir Keir Starmer's party to call for Lucy Connolly to be freed from prison