Rishi Sunak 'deliberately covered up' prisons crisis, says environment secretary

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Published 2024-07-28
Environment secretary Steve Reed has accused Rishi Sunak of "deliberately covering up" the state of prisons.

He says the last Prime Minister was told the situation in prisons was critical but did nothing to solve it.

Mr Reed also maintained that it is right that the new government has discovered a worse situation than what they expected pointing to the Rwanda scheme, which home secretary Yvette Cooper says the last administration spent £700m - more than publicly stated.

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All Comments (21)
  • Sly News have regularly covered the prison crisis. Obviously Sly News have a very short memory!
  • @Smj1303
    COMMENT SECTION DISABLED FOR THE NEW AIRPORT VIDEOS. I WONDER WHY?
  • @vidinaxio
    The state of journalism is appalling, i haven't seen a competent news reporter in years, they just ask dumb attacking questions and lack any original thought.
  • @lofty9999
    The courts are incredibly overloaded also.
  • I can’t listen to TP any longer. Why didn’t they take this attitude to the Tories?
  • @Ahrimas
    Well i sure am glad they got the environment minister on to ask about these environmental issues
  • Sky News turned off the comment section on the new footage from Manchester Airport. So brave.
  • @Lizel-o7d
    I hope sky news sack this presenter. He has no clue about anything. Just reads and makes comments of what is harmful
  • mmmmm he covered everything up....time to make him give taxpayers money back and jail them all
  • @stequality
    Unfortunately the public are in full support of releasing prisoner's early, peoples safety is not in the publics concern
  • @fahmad7194
    What Tories did to Great Britain, even Putin could not do
  • @RaRa-eu9mw
    It wasn't exactly covered up. The prisons crisis has been reported for well over a year. Labour are already making excuses for failure. Doesn't bode well.
  • @gotalove1362
    Build My Farm Help me make a Blueprint to feed 10k People and copy and Paste it everywhere STOP LOCKING them UP give them a JOB 😎Return them to Poverty and expect them to Change /headslap Its a no Brainer in my Eye's....I need your Help, Let me give the people in Need a Hug....I live in Ashfield Mr 30p I need your Help LMAO....❤