Keir Starmer ‘appalled’ by attack on prison officers by Manchester bomb plotter and vows urgent investigation

Prison officers face attacks almost 30 times a day - with 10k in 2024

PRISON officers face attacks almost 30 times a day, figures reveal. A record 10,496 assaults were logged in the year to September 2024 — up from 8,516 the previous 12 months. APHashem Abedi attacked three officers at HMP Frankland[/caption] And 972 were serious assaults, up from 765. There were 19,721 attacks on fellow prisoners, the Ministry of Justice statistics show. Last weekend, Hashem Abedi — brother and accomplice of the Manchester Arena …

Starmer ‘appalled’ by attack on prison officers and pledges urgent investigation

The Prime Minister’s official spokesman said ‘it is clear something went terribly wrong’ in the management of Hashem Abedi

Starmer 'appalled' by HMP Frankland attack by Manchester bomb plotter

Starmer's comments come after an attack on three prison guards at the Category A prison in Durham on Saturday

Starmer Swaps British Icons for Woke Art

Already last year, the then-new British PM was in hot water for taking down the portrait of Margaret Thatcher (after public pressure reportedly rehung in another location) from her former study at No. 10 Downing Street after calling it “unsettling.” Then paintings of Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Walter Raleigh also got the heave-ho. Likewise William Shakespeare. And now, the full list of what’s been removed—and what’s replaced it—has become public.…