Name: Police cells to hold prisoners to avoid overcrowding
Uploaded: 2022-11-30T20:36:36+00:00
Duration: 2 min 37 s
Description: Ministers have revealed that they've been forced to make an urgent request to use four hundred police cells to hold prisoners. The Justice Minister pinned the blame on the impact of the pandemic and the barristers' strike but Labour called it yet "another crisis created by this shambolic Tory government".

Ministers have revealed that they’ve been forced to make an urgent request to use four hundred police cells to hold prisoners.

The Justice Minister pinned the blame on the impact of the pandemic and the barristers’ strike but Labour called it yet “another crisis created by this shambolic Tory government”.