62 minutes ago No 10 says Starmer ‘shares public anger’ at early prisoner releases but system facing paralysis without it – UK politics live

Downing Street says government ‘shocked’ at inheriting prisons crisis as hundreds of prisoners get early releaseThe funeral of Alex Salmond, the former Scottish first minister who died suddenly earlier this month after delivering a speech in North Macedonia, will be held on Tuesday 29 October, his family has announced.The funeral will be at Strichen parish church in Aberdeenshire. It will be conducted by Rev Ian McEwan, a friend of the family, and only family and close friends are invited. Salmond will be laid to rest in Strichen cemetery.According to the Eurostat data, England and Wales had 144 prisoners per 100,000 head of population, the 8th highest rate among EU countries and the highest amongst western European jurisdictions. Scotland had the 9th highest with 137 prisoners per 100,...

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4 hours ago David Gauke calls for end to ‘bidding war’ between parties as he is appointed to sentencing review – UK politics live

Former Conservative justice sectary to carry out review by Ministry of Justice considering alternatives to sending people to jailShabana Mahmood, the justice secretary, has said that mistakes that affected the first set of early prisoner releases under Labour should have been “ironed out” ahead of the second round take place today.In an interview with Times Radio, she said that 37 prisoners were released by mistake when around 1,700 inmates were released early in September. She went on:All 37 were returned to custody, and that operational part of the system actually ended up working exactly as it should.But those mistakes have now been ironed out, and I’m confident that the releases taking place will now be exactly as we need them to be, and victims who are required to be notified will ...

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5 hours ago New polls show Trump losing edge over Harris on economy two weeks out from Election Day: Live updates

Donald Trump previously led Kamala Harris on tax and housing but voters appear to be increasingly persuaded by vice president on the issue, new survey finds

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12 hours ago Former Home Secretary Suella Braverman forwarded official government documents to her private email 127 times while serving as a minister

The former home secretary was found to have breached security provisions of the ministerial code in October 2022, when she forwarded a draft statement from her personal email address.

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15 hours ago Election 2024 live updates: Trump slams Harris as a ‘cognitive mess’; Cheney urges pro

Polls tighten in key swing states as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump set to end busy day of campaigning with events in Concord, North Carolina, and Milwaukee, Wisconsin, respectively

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16 hours ago Harris and Cheney talk economy, women’s health and Trump in Michigan campaign event – US elections live

VP and former Republican congresswoman meet voters in swing state; Trump holds rally in North CarolinaDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsWe reported earlier that Kamala Harris has a huge advantage in campaign cash over Donald Trump. But the former president has his own deep-pocketed backer in the former of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who held a strange town hall in swing state Pennsylvania this weekend where he started handing out mammoth checks to voters to get them to back Trump. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland witnessed the spectacle in person:Standing before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world’s richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them.Today, my Administration is taking a major step to ...

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17 hours ago Trump repeats FEMA conspiracy during North Carolina visit; Harris joins Cheney to court suburban voters: Live

Polls tighten in key swing states as Kamala Harris and Donald Trump enter final two weeks of campaign

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20 hours ago Harris campaigns with Liz Cheney; Trump trying to politicize military with ‘enemy within’ remarks, says Walz – US elections live

Vice-president campaigns in Pennsylvania in effort to win over Republican voters as her running mate warns over Trump commentsDon’t miss important US election coverage. Get our free app and sign up for election alertsWe reported earlier that Kamala Harris has a huge advantage in campaign cash over Donald Trump. But the former president has his own deep-pocketed backer in the former of Tesla boss Elon Musk, who held a strange town hall in swing state Pennsylvania this weekend where he started handing out mammoth checks to voters to get them to back Trump. The Guardian’s Oliver Laughland witnessed the spectacle in person:Standing before a large US flag, which spanned the breadth of a vast stage, the world’s richest man told an assembled crowd that he loved them.Today, my Administration is...

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21 hours ago Employment rights bill will cost firms £5bn per year but benefits will justify costs, government says – UK politics live

Analysis from business and trade department says bill will significantly strengthen workers’ rightIn the past the weirdest budget tradition was the convention that the chancellor is allowed to drink alcohol while delivering the budget speech. But since no chancellor has taken advantage of the rule since the 1990s (and no one expects Rachel Reeves to be quaffing on Wednesday week), this tradition is probably best viewed as lapsed.But Sam Coates from Sky News has discovered another weird budget ritual. On his Politics at Jack and Sam’s podcast, he says:Someone messaged me to say: ‘Did you know that over in the Treasury as they’ve been going over all these spending settlements, in one of the offices, its full of balloons. And every time an individual department finalises its settlements, o...

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