Nick Timothy
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Government urged to ‘come clean’ on new alcohol tag scheme
The SCRAM alcohol monitoring bracelet had a 97 per cent success rate with offenders but is being replaced by a new model
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Hundreds of early-release prisoners in England and Wales not being tagged, say MPs
Clive Efford says Serco has failed to source enough tags, as police and probation struggle with influx of newly released offenders
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MI5 chief Ken McCallum confirms Russia did interfere in Brexit referendum but says it had little impact – as it happened
He argued there was no evidence to suggest the result of the Brexit vote had been swayed as a result of the effort
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Badenoch revives one of the Tories’ most popular policies – but is anyone listening?
Tory leader takes inspiration from George Osborne’s 2007 speech in a bid to win back voters – but it might not be enough to turn the party’s fortunes around, as political editor David Maddox explains
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Justice secretary admits court backlog will continue to rise after U-turn
While Mr Norris insisted that scrapping the proposal would allow the government to reduce the backlog faster, he refused to commit to a target for bringing the backlog down
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Badenoch says Tories want policies ‘for everybody’ as she defends plan to let millionaires get free childcare – UK politics live
Conservative leader defends plan to extend free childcare to high earners, as Tory conference begins in Birmingham today
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Burnham scraps controversial plans to curb jury trials
The key policy idea announced by David Lammy when he was justice secretary will no longer go ahead.
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Burnham scraps controversial Starmer plan to axe jury trials
The move is a U-turn on radical plans to cut thousands of jury trials across England and Wales in a bid to tackle the court backlog
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Tories pledge to build 50,000 new prison places
The party says its proposals would stop prisoners being released early and cut crime.
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Tories pledge to slash overseas aid budget to fund 50,000 prison places
The Tories said their plans would see the vast majority of extra spaces created over the course of a single Parliament and the full increase would be complete within seven years
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‘Thank you Andy Burnham’: prisoners react as they begin to leave under early release scheme – UK politics live
Hundreds of prisoners are being released early today across England and Wales in attempt to ease overcrowding
