Playing down budget expectations: bracing for trouble
In the backwash of the Eastleigh by election result, Tory propaganda has swerved to the right, but will the upcoming budget do enough to buy off the gathering rebels?
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One of the UK’s biggest prisons is getting “steadily worse”, the monitoring board chair tells Channel 4 News, with a 50 per cent increase in the use of force on inmates and a staff recruitment freeze.
Police have been called in after a government audit uncovered potentially fraudulent behaviour by Serco staff working on a £285m contract to deliver prisoners to and from court.
In the wake of revelations about overcharging by Serco and G4S over electronic monitoring of offenders, Channel 4 News asks if tagging is in need of an upgrade.
Plans to cut legal aid have been met with outrage from many in the legal profession – but public sympathy remains muted.
Up to a thousand lawyers are expected to stage a protest against planned cuts in criminal legal aid at Parliament today.
Every offender leaving prison will be subject to 12 months under supervision, the government announces, in a move which will see a greater role for the private sector in prisoner rehabilitation.
The justice secretary announces tough measures aimed at those that are “spending hours languishing in their cells and watching daytime television, while the rest of the country goes out to work”.
Criminals will be made contribute to the cost of the justice system under a new system announced by the Justice Secretary.
The new Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Reverend Justin Welby is enthroned at a service in Canterbury Cathedral attended by more than 2,000 guests.
As MPs call for tougher knife laws, David Cameron insists the government is already cracking down. FactCheck investigates.
In the backwash of the Eastleigh by election result, Tory propaganda has swerved to the right, but will the upcoming budget do enough to buy off the gathering rebels?
Britain’s most senior judge attacks Theresa May for criticising immigration judges and warns cuts to legal aid funding could see people “take law into their own hands”.
Restrictions on health and welfare benefits for immigrants from European Union states would have to apply equally to UK citizens under EU law, says Downing Street.
David Cameron has vowed there will be no “lurch to the right” by the Conservatives in the wake of the party’s poor performance in the Eastleigh by-election.
Private firms are better at running prisons than the public sector and all jails should be subject to open competition, says a new report by think-tank Reform.