Shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood said Labour would need to ‘lift the bonnet’ and assess the crisis in prisons.
Labour’s head of justice has declined to rule out her party ending the Tories’ early prisoner release scheme, despite Sir Keir Starmer saying he was “critical” of the strategy.
Shadow justice secretary Shabana Mahmood declined to rule out ending the early release scheme, as she said Labour would need to “lift the bonnet” in government before knowing the true extent of the crisis in prisons. “It would be irresponsible for me from opposition, without seeing the data about the number of offenders that have been released or having all of that information, to make those decisions now.”
“Like the many problems that they have left for the country, if we do come into power we’re going to have to fix it.
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