Yvette Cooper to lead summit with figures from the intelligence agencies and police aimed at tackling criminal gangs
The prison population has reached a new record high, PA Media reports. Official figures showed there were 88,521 people imprisoned on Friday, 171 more than the previous record set at the end of last week.
The prison population has risen by 1,025 people over the past four weeks and now stands at its highest level since weekly population data was first published in 2011.
While the balance of delegates at conference is likely to be favourable to Starmer, the Labour party is beset with major internal disagreements between the majority of members and trade unionists – who support commonsense progressive policies such as the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap and want to see an end to austerity policies after 14 years of Tory misrule – and a small grouping around the leadership, who remain obsessively focused on control freakery and are happy to have economic policy dictated by the Treasury.
Continue reading…Yvette Cooper to lead summit with figures from the intelligence agencies and police aimed at tackling criminal gangs The prison population has reached a new record high, PA Media reports. Official figures showed there were 88,521 people imprisoned on Friday, 171 more than the previous record set at the end of last week.The prison population has risen by 1,025 people over the past four weeks and now stands at its highest level since weekly population data was first published in 2011.While the balance of delegates at conference is likely to be favourable to Starmer, the Labour party is beset with major internal disagreements between the majority of members and trade unionists – who support commonsense progressive policies such as the scrapping of the two-child benefit cap and want to see an end to austerity policies after 14 years of Tory misrule – and a small grouping around the leadership, who remain obsessively focused on control freakery and are happy to have economic policy dictated by the Treasury. Continue reading…