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Headache for Starmer as splits erupt over tax hikes and minister breaks rules

Labour’s new deputy leader Lucy Powell said the Government ‘should be following through’ on its manifesto pledge on not raising key taxes.

The Independent UK

Manhunt ongoing for mistakenly released prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif

Sir Keir Starmer said that he was ‘angry and frustrated’ by ‘intolerable’ wrongful prisoner releases.

Evening Standard

Lammy speaking to ‘best of his knowledge’ on prisoner release error – Starmer

Sir Keir Starmer said his deputy could ‘speak for himself’ on questions around whether a prisoner was wrongfully freed before new checks were imposed.

The Independent UK

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Lammy says he was right not to discuss mistakenly freed prisoner at PMQs

Justice secretary says he did not have ‘all the detail’ at the time and there is ‘mountain to climb’ on prisons crisis

The Guardian - UK

Mistakenly released prisoner hands himself in as Lammy faces fresh pressure over handling of fiasco

William ‘Billy’ Smith, 35, returned to Wandsworth prison after being mistakenly released on Monday

The Independent UK

Accidentally freed prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was let out of immigration centre this summer, court hears

Judge Rosa Dean ordered prosecutors to provide more information on Brahim Kaddour-Cherif

Evening Standard

Who are the prisoners mistakenly released from Wandsworth Prison?

Police are continuing the search for a migrant sex offender who was wrongly freed from jail

The Independent UK

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England prison chiefs summoned to urgent meeting with ministers over wrongful releases

Justice minister promises digital overhaul of ‘archaic’ paper system partly blamed for average of 22 people being wrongly freed each month

The Guardian - UK

Lammy admits 'mountain to climb' on prisons crisis as 40 more inmates may be wrongly freed before Christmas

Pressure is increasing on the Justice Secretary David Lammy over his handling of the blunders

Evening Standard

David Lammy told to ‘get a grip’ as search continues for mistakenly freed prisoners

Robert Jenrick has expressed a lack of confidence in David Lammy and said the deputy prime minister’s performance at PMQs was a ‘disgrace’

The Independent UK

UK police hunt for two more wrongly released prisoners days after new measures brought in

The inadvertent releases heap further embarrassment on the Prison Service, which has been starved of resources for many years.

Euronews

Released by Mistake: Algerian Migrant Sex Offender Freed in Prison Blunder—Nationwide Manhunt Underway

UK authorities are scrambling to recapture Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, wrongly freed from HMP Wandsworth in a shocking prison blunder that's triggered outrage, political fallout, and a nationwide manhunt.

International Business Times UK

Two more prisoners on run after being released from HMP Wandsworth by mistake in fresh crisis for Labour

Police searching for Algerian sex offender freed from Wandsworth jail by mistake along with convicted fraudster – days after justice secretary claimed he’d introduced strictest-ever prison checks following Epping migrant blunder

The Independent UK

Police launch double manhunt as two prisoners mistakenly released from jail

It comes after migrant Hadush Kebatu was wrongly released from HMP Chelmsford on October 24.

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Police manhunt underway after second prisoner released in error

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