Sack Ken Clarke over rape comments - Miliband

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Ed Miliband tells the prime minister that Justice Secretary Ken Clarke should resign over comments made about rape in a BBC Radio 5 live interview.

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Ken Clarke should be sacked as justice secretary following his remarks about rape on BBC Radio 5 live, Labour leader Ed Miliband has said.

Mr Clarke disputed claims changes to sentencing rules could see rapists let out in 15 months for pleading guilty.
He said violent "serious rape" had longer terms and average sentencing figures were skewed by underage sex between consenting teenagers.
Mr Miliband said the PM should distance himself from the remarks.
The row follows plans to halve jail terms for people who plead guilty early, including rapists, who on average are sentenced to five years.
'Serious rapes' At present, a defendant entering an early guilty plea can earn up to a third off their sentence. But proposals to halve sentences are outlined in a Green Paper on sentencing in England and Wales.

At prime minister's questions, Mr Miliband said Mr Clarke had suggested there were "serious rapes and other categories of rape" adding: "The justice secretary can't speak for the women of this country when he makes comments like that."
David Cameron told MPs rape was "one of the most serious crimes that there is and it should be met with proper punishment" and the "real disgrace" was that only 6% of reported rape cases ended in a conviction.
He said there was already a plea bargaining system in the UK and the government was only consulting on whether to extend - and had not yet decided what crimes it should include.
The prime minister said he had not heard the interview but the government's position was clear - that rape was serious and should be punished "very severely".
But Mr Miliband told him to go back and listen to the interview adding: "The justice secretary should not be in his post at the end of today."
'Strongest example' Earlier Labour former solicitor general Vera Baird QC told BBC Radio 4's Today programme the standard sentence for rape started at five years.
"If you are talking about halving it to two-and-a-half years and then a person gets out halfway through their sentence on licence which is usual, then we are talking about sentences of 15 months which have no regard at all for the gravity of the offence and gives no time for rehabilita Continued