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clashed angrily with a senior cabinet minister over her claims that the criminal justice system was at the point of “breakdown” when Labour came to office in July.presenter’s accusation that she was engaging in “hyperbole” to justify her decision to release thousands of prioners early to free up space in the country’s jails.
She said: “As the justice secretary you know that the police’s primary responsibility is to enforce the law and they would have continued to do that. So they would have continued to make arrests.
“We have never been in a position where there were fewer than 100 spaces across the whole of the country in our prison system. That is an abject failure of the last Conservative government.”Burley then said there had been several occasions when the government had had to release prisoners early.
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