Andy Burnham‘s top mandarin is facing questions over her own role in the prison overcrowding crisis that is leading to thousands of criminals being released early.
Dame Antonia Romeo, now Cabinet Secretary, was in charge of the Ministry of Justice for four years as problems mounted with the plan to build more cells.
She was accused by MPs of presiding over a ‘ticking timebomb’ as her department knew that existing jails were rapidly running out of space yet the construction of new sites was delayed.
On her watch the MoJ built just 6,518 new places were built out of a promised 20,000, and
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