The Justice Secretary is posting about flying to New York and meeting the NFL on the same day that his department releases 650 prisoners early. The Norriswave…
650 offenders are leaving jails in England and Wales today in the third batch of Labour’s early releases. After serving one third of their sentence…
1,350 prisoners were let out by Labour in the first two waves of the scheme. It will be more than 2,500 by the end of the year…
Meanwhile the Ministry of Justice has today posted a video in which the Justice Secretary Alex Norris boasts about meeting the NFL in New York and how they provide opportunities for people to become coaches in Britain. He says he is a “big fan of” the NFL. Nice to know, pal…
Shadow Justice Secretary Nick Timothy tells Guido:
“Labour are releasing 650 dangerous criminals today, but the Justice Secretary seems more concerned with bragging about his taxpayer funded trip to New York.
Today he should be focused on the victims who are living in fear thanks to his early release scheme, and his broken promise that all these criminals would be tagged.”
The dodgy tagging…
Lucy Powell told Sky News that the Ed Miliband-Russell Brand interview happened in part because the ‘social media age’ had not begun by 2015:
“Look, I mean, he approached the Labour Party, he approached the campaign team, and we’re in very different times now. We weren’t in the social media age at the time – where you could maybe search things up and see allegations about somebody at the time. and as I say, if there was any suggestion at all, we were dealing with someone who was a known sexual predator at the time, then, of course, you know, no one would have done that. But as I say, he was a well known public figure. Lots of people from Hollywood to the BBC to many others gave this person a very, very powerful platform. And we didn’t know at the time, unfortunately. It was a different era.”