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The prime minister says other work to reduce prisoner numbers could allow for more space for serious offendersAndy Burnham did not want to be talking about prisons today. As Aletha Adu and Alexandra Topping report, the PM wants to highlight new powers to stop betting...
Burnham ‘increasingly confident’ PC Harper’s killers will not get early release
Prime minister says he has asked justice secretary to push through measures to increase the number of prison placesAndy Burnham has said he is increasingly confident he can adapt the early release scheme for prisoners to exclude the killers of PC Andrew Harper and...
Burnham rough-sleeper pledge at risk from failures in housing ex-prisoners, charity warns
Analysis finds nearly one in six people leaving jail last year in England and Wales were released into homelessnessAndy Burnham’s pledge to end rough sleeping is under threat from a failure to find accommodation for a growing number of newly released prisoners, a...
Rayner says Burnham won’t accept ‘system says no’ advice over prisoner release scheme – UK politics live
Burnham has asked the justice secretary Alex Norris to come to parliament in September with solution Good morning. Andy Burnham has been prime minister for three weeks and one day, and arguably he is performing his first U-turn. It is in relation to the prisoner early...