Boris Johnson warns that Starmer’s Britain is ‘becoming a police state’ after mom who tweeted about Southport murders fails in her bid to have long prison time period slashed

Britain is turning into a police state below Labour, Boris Johnson warned remaining night time.

He spoke as a sentencing row erupted after a mom locked up for a tweet after the Southport murders failed in a bid to scale back her long prison time period.

Lucy Connolly posted a vile message about migrants – however supporters indicate that criminals discovered in charge of way more severe offences were passed considerably shorter sentences.

And former high minister Mr Johnson warned that the rustic is ‘dropping its popularity totally free speech’ as a rising collection of on-line rants draw the eye of police.

Connolly, 42, had requested the Court of Appeal to unfastened her early from a 31-month sentence for inciting racial hatred, imposed after she posted a tweet urging other folks to ‘set hearth to the motels’ at the day of the triple homicide remaining summer time.

She posted it at a time of swirling incorrect information on-line, together with a declare that the knifeman who killed 3 women was once a small boat migrant – a false declare that may result in weeks of race riots.

Connolly’s ‘heartbroken’ husband, Northampton Tory councillor Ray, insisted his spouse was once ‘a excellent individual… now not a far-Right thug’ as judges the day prior to this disregarded her enchantment towards her prison time period.

He condemned the gadget as ‘two-tier justice’ and stated it was once ‘now not the British means’.

Mr Johnson blasted the ‘loopy and inhuman judgment’, caution: ‘Starmer’s Britain is dropping its popularity totally free speech and becoming a police state, the place we will have to all learn how to worry the knock at the door merely for one thing we are saying’

Mr Johnson added: ‘The UK police are actually making over 10,000 arrests yearly for on-line remark, greater than the police in Russia itself, and this judgment is but any other propaganda reward for Vladimir Putin.’ Pictured: inventory symbol of law enforcement officials

Mr Johnson blasted the ‘loopy and inhuman judgment’, caution: ‘Starmer’s Britain is dropping its popularity totally free speech and becoming a police state, the place we will have to all learn how to worry the knock at the door merely for one thing we are saying.

‘The UK police are actually making over 10,000 arrests yearly for on-line remark, greater than the police in Russia itself, and this judgment is but any other propaganda reward for Vladimir Putin.’

Mother-of-one Connolly is recently at HMP Drake Hall, Staffordshire, for her publish on X, previously Twitter, which learn: ‘Mass deportation now, set hearth to all of the f****** motels filled with the b******* for all I care…if that makes me racist so be it.’

She is not going to be launched till August. Her imprisonment resulted in protests by way of campaigners wearing placards mentioning ‘police our streets, now not our tweets’.

Supporters stated her sickening tweet – posted hours after Cardiff-born killer Axel Rudakubana murdered 3 women at a dance magnificence on July 29 – was once a ‘silly mistake’ however in comparison her ‘rotting in prison’ with many violent thugs passed lighter jail phrases.

Connolly claimed she had no thought what she was once admitting to when she pleaded in charge remaining October, a controversy 3 senior judges discovered was once not going.

Last night time Tory justice spokesman Robert Jenrick stated: ‘In fresh months shoplifters with loads of prior convictions have have shyed away from jail. 

‘A home abuser with 52 prior offences were given off with a suspended sentence, as did a paedophile with 110,000 indecent pictures of youngsters.

Mother-of-one Lucy Connolly, pictured, is recently at HMP Drake Hall, Staffordshire, for her publish on X, previously Twitter, which learn: ‘Mass deportation now, set hearth to all of the f****** motels filled with the b******* for all I care…if that makes me racist so be it’

Connolly’s ‘heartbroken’ husband, Northampton Tory councillor Ray, pictured, insisted his spouse was once ‘a excellent individual… now not a far-Right thug’ as judges the day prior to this disregarded her enchantment towards her long prison time period

‘And but Lucy Connolly has won a 31-month jail sentence for an appalling – albeit all of a sudden deleted – message on social media. 

‘How on earth are you able to spend longer in jail for a tweet than violent crime?

‘This loopy disparity will handiest gas belief that we have got a two-tier justice gadget the place the regulation is enforced selectively.’

Among the vile thugs who’ve won shorter sentences than Connolly was once exact rioter Haris Ghaffar, who was once given 20 months for the storming of a Birmingham pub.

Speaking to The Telegraph the day prior to this from HMP Drake Hall, Connolly stated: ‘Shame on them.

‘Those 3 judges that have been sitting there in courtroom will have to feel embarrassment about themselves, they’re merciless.’

After the day prior to this’s ruling, Mr Connolly stated: ‘My spouse Lucy is a great individual and now not a racist. 

‘Lucy were given extra time in prison for one tweet than some paedophiles and home abusers get. My spouse has paid an excessively prime value for creating a mistake and nowadays the courtroom has proven no mercy’.

After the day prior to this’s ruling, Mr Connolly, pictured, stated: ‘My spouse Lucy is a great individual and now not a racist’

Supporters stated her sickening tweet – posted hours after Cardiff-born killer Axel Rudakubana, pictured, murdered 3 women at a dance magnificence on July 29, 2024 – was once a ‘silly mistake’ however in comparison her ‘rotting in prison’ with many violent thugs passed lighter jail phrases

He added: ‘The 284 days of separation were very arduous, specifically on our 12-year-old girl. Lucy posted one nasty tweet when she was once disenchanted and offended about 3 little women who have been brutally murdered in Southport.

‘She realised the tweet was once incorrect and deleted it inside 4 hours. That didn’t imply Lucy was once a ‘far-Right thug’ as Prime Minister Keir Starmer claimed.

‘As a childminder, she took care of babies of African and Asian heritage; they cherished Lucy as she cherished them.’

Mr Connolly stated the gadget ‘sought after to make an instance of Lucy so others can be scared to mention issues about immigration’.

Toby Young, the overall secretary of the Free Speech Union, stated: ‘How can it’s proper for Lucy to were condemned to spend greater than two-and-a-half years in prison for a unmarried tweet when individuals of grooming gangs who plead in charge to the sexual exploitation of youngsters get decrease sentences?

‘Lucy will have to be at house along with her daughter and husband, now not rotting in prison.’

The Free Speech Union stated: ‘No one disputes the tweet was once offensive however the sentence of greater than two-and-a-half years was once it appears that evidently disproportionate.’

Rupert Lowe, the previous Reform MP now sitting as an Independent, known as it ‘morally repugnant to split a mom from her youngsters over one silly social media publish’.

Rupert Lowe, pictured, the previous Reform MP now sitting as an Independent, known as it ‘morally repugnant to split a mom from her youngsters over one silly social media publish’

Writing to Justice Secretary Shabana Mahmood, he stated: ‘Who is being served by way of having Lucy Connolly in jail? It is without a doubt now not the general public, who I consider would really feel some distance more secure if a violent prison was once incarcerated in that cellular.’

Asked by way of broadcasters if unfastened speech was once useless in the United Kingdom, Sir Keir stated: ‘Firstly, I’m strongly in favour of unfastened speech… and we offer protection to it fiercely.

‘I’m similarly, despite the fact that, towards incitement to violence. That has lengthy been an offence in our nation, and rightly so.’

The Southport atrocity sparked national rioting. The tweet by way of Connolly was once seen 310,000 occasions in three-and-a-half hours earlier than she deleted it.

She later admitted at Birmingham Crown Court to distributing subject matter with the aim of stirring up racial hatred.

Last week she appealed towards the sentence, telling the Court of Appeal in London she had no thought the overall extent of what she was once admitting. But the day prior to this Lord Justice Holroyde, sitting with Mr Justice Goss and Mr Justice Sheldon, stated she ‘had willingly pleaded in charge’.

They discovered Connolly was once an ‘clever and articulate’ girl… ‘smartly conscious about what she was once admitting’.