A new Conservative government will address the epidemic of intimate partner violence by imposing the strictest possible conditions for anyone accused of intimate partner violence and strengthened jail time for abusers.

Those who abuse their partners or their children should be off the streets and behind bars where they can’t harm their victims or anyone else.

To do that, we will:

• Create a new offence of “assault of an intimate partner” to deliver tougher sentences for anyone who abuses an intimate partner. 
• Require the strictest bail conditions for anyone accused of intimate partner violence, including GPS ankle bracelet monitoring, with any breach of conditions resulting in immediate imprisonment.
• End the senseless practice of downgrading the murder of an intimate partner to manslaughter, simply because the murderer claims it was a so-called “crime of passion”.
• Make sure that the murder of an intimate partner, one’s own child, or a partner’s child will be treated as first-degree murder.

Conservatives will make sure our justice system always puts victims, not criminals, first.