Tories to end early release of offenders by building 50,000 new prison places
The party says the plan would raise prison capacity by more than 50% and cost £2 billion a year, funded by spending cuts.
- Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch vowed to build 50,000 prison places, pledging a £2 billion annual investment funded by slashing the foreign aid and Department for Culture, Media and Sport budgets by £1 billion each.
- Prisons in England and Wales are 98% full with around 89,000 usable places, prompting Badenoch to argue "a violent criminal doesn't become less dangerous just because the government has run out of prison cells."
- Labour Party chairwoman Bridget Phillipson criticized the proposal, noting the Conservatives added just 500 prison places while closing 23 over 14 years; The Prison Governors' Association warned a "staffing crisis" poses delivery challenges.
- Ahead of the Conservative Party's annual conference in Birmingham starting Sunday, the party detailed plans to reduce international development spending to £1 billion, down from a previous 0.3% pledge.
- While the Conservatives stated the full quota would be delivered within seven years, Reform UK home affairs spokesman Zia Yusuf dismissed the proposal as "pure fantasy.
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Kemi Badenoch pledges to end early release scheme by building 50,000 new cells
Kemi Badenoch has vowed to end the early prison release scheme by building 50,000 new cells.The plans would cost an estimated £2billion per year for the first five years, the Conservatives say, which would include both building and running the additional prison spaces.This would be funded by cutting foreign aid to £1billion, a further £1billion from reducing the Department for Culture, Media and Sport budget, and £500million from Cabinet Office …
The Conservative Party in Britain has pledged to build 50,000 new prison places in England and Wales if it returns to power. The aim is to end the early release of prisoners due to capacity shortages, Sky News reported. The plan is estimated to cost £2 billion. The Conservatives say £1 billion could be provided by cutting the international aid budget, another £1 billion by cuts to the Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and £500 million by …
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Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has said her party will reverse Labour's "dangerous early-release schemes" and accused the government of entering office without a plan to fix the prisons problem. Follow the latest below.
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