2 w. ago Who could be behind the phantom briefing and the tax rise that wasn’t? Inspector Starmer is on the case | Marina Hyde

Chaos and ineptitude dog our poor PM. Perhaps the explanation lies (very) close to homeAt this rate the only businesses who will want to invest in Britain after the budget are heroin dealers. No 10 used to have a news grid, now it has an apology grid. Even so, why did Keir Starmer apologise for a sensationally self-destructive round of briefing against Wes Streeting if he didn’t do it? This is like me apologising for accidentally releasing sex offenders from prison. I suppose there is the occasional previous example in public life. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor apologised for his association with Jeffrey Epstein and gave a woman he’d never met a reported £12m. Perhaps that provides the prime minister with the warming cover of precedent.If you’re just joining us, this is a week in which the government finally achieved the chaos spiral of several recent Conservative administrations. We can now officially say: same car, different clowns. We are less than two weeks out from the budget, wit...

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3 w. ago Sex offender mistakenly let out of prison arrested after being spotted by member of public

A police officer told Brahim Kaddour-Cherif that he had a ‘very distinctive wonky nose’ after the 24-year-old claimed he was somebody else during his arrest

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3 w. ago Wrongly freed Algerian migrant sex offender slams UK justice, tells cops 'do your job' and shouts 'it's not my fault I was released' in extraordinary tirade as he is re

Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, has been rearrested after being accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth over a week ago.

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3 w. ago Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested

Algerian sex offender mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison arrested  BBC

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3 w. ago Algerian sex offender released by mistake from Wandsworth prison arrested

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif was arrested in Islington after a huge police manhunt

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3 w. ago Sex offender mistakenly let out of prison rearrested after being spotted by member of public

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, was serving a sentence at HMP Wandsworth in south-west London

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3 w. ago Prisoner Brahim Kaddour Cherif released by mistake is arrested after manhunt

Sex offender Brahim Kaddour Cherif was released from HMP Wandsworth prison in error

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3 w. ago Sex offender accidentally released from Wandsworth prison caught

Sex offender accidentally released from Wandsworth prison caught  MyLondon

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3 w. ago Police arrest Algerian migrant sex offender who was released from prison by mistake

Algerian sex offender Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, 24, has been rearrested after being accidentally freed from HMP Wandsworth over a week ago.

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3 w. ago 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

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3 w. ago 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

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3 w. ago Sex offender accidentally released from prison flashed genitals at historic East London site

Sex offender accidentally released from prison flashed genitals at historic East London site  MyLondon

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3 w. ago Smiling wrongly released prisoner William Smith hands himself back in to Wandsworth prison

Convicted fraudster William ‘Billy’ Smith smiled and waved as he walked back into the south London jail

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3 w. ago Wandsworth prison manhunt latest: Prisoner found three days after accidental release but another on loose

Manhunt continues for prisoner Brahim Kaddour-Cherif

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3 w. ago Wandsworth prison manhunt latest: Lammy was ‘not accurately informed’ about mistakenly released inmate before PMQs

Errors come just days after sex offender migrant Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford

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3 w. ago How prisoner was wrongly released from Wandsworth prison revealed

Fraudster William Smith was released from HMP Wandsworth on the same day he was jailed

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3 w. ago Wandsworth prison admits two inmates released in error in past week

Wandsworth prison admits two inmates released in error in past week  BBC

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3 w. ago Wandsworth prison manhunt latest: Two inmates on the run as prison admits to second accidental release this week

Errors come just days after sex offender migrant Hadush Kebatu was wrongly freed from HMP Chelmsford

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3 w. ago Manhunts for Algerian flasher and convicted fraudster wrongly released from Wandsworth prison

Anger as Metropolitan Police say they were only informed on Tuesday that prisoner was on the run, six days after his ‘release in error’

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3 w. ago Second prisoner released by mistake as another manhunt launched

Two prisoners including a convicted sex offender were accidentally freed from the same jail in less than a week, sparking a major manhunt for two different police forces

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