In what has become a febrile political climate, a 50% discount on sentences for people making early guilty pleas was never going to be an easy sell. Ken Clarke did not help his cause by getting into an argument over rape on BBC Radio 5 Live last month. As is sometimes the case with the justice secretary, an engaging, if blokeish, self-confidence comes across as arrogance or complacency.
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