Reform’s new prisons tsar Vanessa Frake has already landed herself in hot water. Speaking to The Times today, Frake claimed that allowing trans women in female prisons could be assessed on an “individual basis“. A Reform spokesman told Guido this afternoon:
“An ex-prison governor who is advising Colin Sutton’s task force has a different opinion. That does not constitute party policy.”
Farage himself said at Reform’s law and order press conference this morning “I think you’ll find that the answer that you’ll get from somebody who has worked in prisons at the highest possible level is, I think basically it’s about risk assessment.” The party’s now flatly rejecting the idea…
Sarah Pochin at Reform Scotland’s manifesto launch event: “I really wanted to come on in a Reform tartan burka, but apparently I wasn’t allowed… One day let’s do one of these events not live-streamed. We’ll do all the naughty stuff…”