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Shabana Mahmood was seen as a safe pair of hands, which was given as a reason for her promotion to Home Secretary, but it looks like she got out while to going was good, given early release was likely to lead to more errors.
After all, there was this headline in Politics Live yesterday.
Spike in prison release mistakes linked to new rules for jails and early release scheme, Prison Service says
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What a very shambolic performance by Lammy today on 11:30 - Nov 7 with 344 views
What a very shambolic performance by Lammy today on 11:27 - Nov 7 by DJR
Shabana Mahmood was seen as a safe pair of hands, which was given as a reason for her promotion to Home Secretary, but it looks like she got out while to going was good, given early release was likely to lead to more errors.
After all, there was this headline in Politics Live yesterday.
Spike in prison release mistakes linked to new rules for jails and early release scheme, Prison Service says
And, amazingly, the Prison Service are still using a paper based system.
What a very shambolic performance by Lammy today on 11:16 - Nov 7 by DJR
One thing that strikes me as different with other countries in Europe is that there seems to be an acceptance that if you want decent public services, you have to pay for them.
Here the narrative is, and for a long time has been, driven by the notion that taxes are a bad thing.
I am also not sure that the mainstream media (and I don't mean that as a pejorative) in other countries is so partisan, with the right wing media in the UK largely dictating the agenda.