The new prime minister is linking the need for better vocational education in school with his belief in localism
At her press conference, Kemi Badenoch blamed Covid for the fact that the last Conservative government left the country short of prison places.
She said:
We know that the situation with prisons is challenging. When we were in government, we saw the challenge. We created 14,000 new prison places – it was nowhere near enough.
We had a prison-building target in our manifesto. Covid derailed that programme.
We also had early release but not like this. We never had this category of prisoners being released. We never had killers, rapists, paedophiles on early release. That is what I want to stop.
If Andy Burnham wants to prove that he is serious about this, he needs to revoke the commencement order [the regulation saying the Sentencing Act measures will come into force on 2 September]. That is a simple action that I’m asking for today.
It’s quite clear that the prime minister sees that this is a problem, but I don’t think he knows what to do about it.
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