The prime minister says the prison early release scheme crisis shows he’s someone who had ‘never taken no for an answer’In his pooled TV interview, Andy Burnham repeated the point he made in his Facebook post earlier (see...
Read MoreThe prime minister says he wants to build crossparty consensus In his pooled TV interview, Andy Burnham repeated the point he made in his Facebook post earlier (see 9.58am), saying he was confident that more could be done to...
Read MoreThe 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...
Read MoreBurnham 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....
Read MorePolitical leaders have kicked the can of public protection tariff reform down the road for years – causing hopeless inmates to take their own livesIn January 2015, Tommy Nicol told his family that he was suffering “psychological...
Read MoreCounter-terrorism police investigating the death of Ann Widdecombe have reopened an inquiry into an incident last yearFarage and Yusuf are now taking questions.Q: [From Jack Fenwick from the BBC] Are there other countries where...
Read MoreCounter-terrorism police investigating the death of Ann Widdecombe have reopened an inquiry into an incident last yearFarage and Yusuf are now taking questions.Q: [From Jack Fenwick from the BBC] Are there other countries where...
Read MoreReform says it will free up space in jails in England and Wales by rapidly deporting all foreign offendersGood morning. Andy Burnham has said Middlemarch is his favourite novel, but he may not remember George Eliot’s line about...
Read MoreGovernment ‘urgently’ identifying men convicted in historic cases who could be freed in scheme loopholeUK politics live – latest updatesAndy Burnham’s government is “urgently” identifying any grooming gang perpetrators who may...
Read MoreBoard of Deputies of British Jews and the Jewish Leadership Council to meet with Tory party but decline meeting with Joshua Bonehill-PaineBadenoch defends decision to allow man jailed for antisemitism to stand as...
Read MoreThames Valley chief constable says he is ‘receiving legal advice’ and would ‘certainly consider’ joining the Police Federation’s legal actionMinisters will scrap the requirement for companies to prove their green and progressive...
Read MoreJake Richard acknowledges ‘unimaginable pain’ of Harper’s family but says government faces an ‘unenviable position’Good morning and welcome to the UK politics blog.Ministers continue to defend the release of PC Andrew Harper’s...
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