Prison works. Michael Howard’s famous mantra triggered apoplexy on the liberal Left in the 1990s and has been out of fashion at Westminster for decades.
But if Nick Timothy gets his way, it will be coming back.
The combative Shadow Justice Secretary is a huge admirer of the former Tory home secretary and party leader.
‘Prison works,’ he says simply. ‘I use that phrase a lot because prison is there to punish, and it’s there to do justice, but it is (also) there literally to take people out of circulation.
‘When Michael Howard launched the big prison building programme in the Nineties, what followed
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