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….
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…”