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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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Politics latest: Tories to end early release of offenders by building 50,000 new prison places
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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The Independent (US)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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