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night David Lammy A Video has been posted in x Saying he was “as shocked as anyone” that prison release mistakes were happening at this rate.
In the video the Secretary of Justice said he was determined to get it:
“I have brought stronger checks on the release of more direct accountability.
“And I have asked Dame Lynne Owens to conduct an independent review to see what action we can take.
“Now I am gathering prison governors to understand what additional support they need to stop these mistakes.”
Minister defends Lammy Atgid pressure on wrongful release of prisoners
Good morning and welcome to our coverage of UK politics as David Lammy’s handling of a botched prison release, involving a sex offender, continues.
The Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of Justice was criticized for transporting the Algerian Brusim Kaddour-cherif from WandSHO prison. Yesterday the Deputy Prime Minister and Secretary of Justice said that the government has “a mountain to climb” to resolve all the details “when asked by parliament on Wednesday.
But there was an apparent uproar from colleagues, who at times quoted anonymous senior ministers as “cowardly” and guilty of “rank loss”.
Keir Starmer, while at the Cop30 Summit, backed his representative by saying it was “correct” he was “stating the facts to the best of his knowledge”. He is traveling from Brazil now.
Meanwhile Steve Reed dismissed the lammy from fellow ministers as “anonymous tittle tattle”. The housing secretary said on radio occasions:
The problem is that we have a broken system, and you see failures when you have a broken system. The key is to make sure that we have a digital system so that nothing stupid is released by mistake.
There is no acceptable number for [mistaken releases]but the way to fix it is not tittle tattle about David Lammy in the newspapers, it is to go and do the work and put in the investment that will digitize the system.
David has already prepared the governors of the prison yesterday, I think they feel the coals that have been given, but he also made sure that all the support they need to make sure that the changes are at an absolute minimum. “
Stay with us for all the developments as well as the calculation of the pre-budget of the new leader of the Deputy of Labor, who said that the labor of sales should stand up to the sales of the chancellor, the challenge to put pressure on the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves. You can read our story here