Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones has said that prisons will be secured after a “crack team of tech experts” digitises the release system. So much for the “strongest release checks to ever be in place” that Lammy announced after Kebatu’s accidental release…
After Lammy’s disasterclass DPMQs two more prisoners, this time from HMP Wandsworth, were found to have been released by mistake. Davies-Jones told Sky News “we are trying to get to the bottom of this,” “it isn’t going to be fixed overnight” and the MoJ is looking at “really clever new technology” to digitise prison records. Nothing which saves Lammy from his malaise…
Robert Jenrick described Lammy’s excuse for not admitting a migrant was released by accident as “bullsh*t” on Good Morning Britain. So have the Met, to be fair….
Justice minister Alex Davies-Jones told the Today Programme it wasn’t ‘appropriate’ to ask whether or not David Lammy was shopping prior to DPMQs instead of trying to sort out the released prisoner:
“He was preparing for Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions. He was preparing to stand in for the Prime Minister, the first ever black person to do so… He cracked a joke because his poppy had fallen off this suit, which he also addressed during the Deputy Prime Minister’s Questions… I don’t think it’s appropriate to get into the weeds of if he was shopping or not in the morning.”