UK politics live: minister defends Labour’s justice record after warnings of threat to public safety

Housing minister says previous government left prison system in state of ‘criminal neglect’ amid warnings over early release plan Shadow work and pensions secretary Helen Whately has accused the government of doing “a terrible job on keeping the country safe.”She told listeners of Times Radio “We’ve already seen that they accidentally released a load of prisoners that they shouldn’t have done, including violent domestic abuses, which are clearly terrifying for the victims of that abuse. And they just don’t have the prison situation under control. They need to take responsibility. They’re now in government.”What we were handed by the previous government in terms of the state of our prison system was nothing short of criminal neglect. They added just 500 places to the prison estate in their time in office, while at the same time, sentence lengths rose, and as a result, we got the prison population rising by approximately 3,000 people each year.And we’re heading back to zero capacity. If we run out of capacity, courts will be forced to suspend trials, the police will have to halt arrests, crimes will go unpunished. Continue reading...

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