Top police officers warned at the end of last year how the Government’s controversial early release plans would delight offenders and trigger a crimewave.
Today, we have further evidence of just how disastrous Labour’s policy is likely to be.
Research from the Conservatives – based on official data – now predicts inmates released early from jail after serving as little as one third of their sentences will go on to commit a staggering 89,000 new crimes by 2029.
The politician responsible for this mess is Shabana Mahmood, one of a handful of senior ministers to remain in their posts after Andy Burnham’s ‘Black
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