37 h. 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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5 d. ago Justice officials accidentally release plans to spend tens of millions moving women criminals out of prison

Documents accidentally released by the Ministry of Justice outline a scheme - which would cost an initial £68million and then a further £47million a year - to 'divert' women offenders out of jail.

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8 d. ago Sex offender accidentally released from Wandsworth prison caught

Sex offender accidentally released from Wandsworth prison caught  MyLondon

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9 d. 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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9 d. 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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9 d. ago Dozens of prisoners released from Scots jails BY MISTAKE as jaw

DOZENS of prisoners have been mistakenly released from Scotland's jails in a catalogue of blunders, new figures have revealed. The Scottish Prison Service said 27 inmates had been accidentally released since 2022. Eight "liberations in error" occurred in 2022/23, while seven happened in 2023/24 and nine in 2024/25. Three inmates have been released mistakenly in...

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1 week ago HMP Wandsworth release ANOTHER prisoner in error: Convicted fraudster and Algerian migrant sex offender 'who gave police false address while on bail' go on the run

On Monday, British national William Smith, who goes by Billy, was released from the scandal-hit prison by accident.

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1 week ago UK police hunt two men accidentally released from same prison

Algerian man convicted of indecent exposure and British man sentenced for fraud were mistakenly freed from Wandsworth prison

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1 week ago HMP Wandsworth release ANOTHER prisoner in error: Convicted fraudster and Algerian migrant sex offender go on the run

On Monday, British national William Smith, who goes by Billy, was released from the scandal-hit prison by accident.

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1 week 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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1 week ago HMP Wandsworth have released ANOTHER prisoner in error: Convicted fraudster is SECOND inmate to be wrongly freed within a week after Algerian migrant sex offender

On Monday, British national William Smith, who goes by Billy, was released from the scandal-hit prison by accident.

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1 week ago Fugitive Algerian migrant sex offender accidentally released from Wandsworth prison is named

The Algerian convict, 24, is understood to have been serving time for trespass with an intent to steal but has previously committed sexual offences.

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1 week ago Second migrant sex offender was accidentally released from prison a WEEK ago... and police have only just been told: Manhunt for Algerian convict freed from Wandsworth by mistake

The Algerian convict, 24, is understood to have been serving time for trespass with an intent to steal but has previously committed sexual offences.

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1 week ago Police hunt for Algerian man accidentally released from prison

UK authorities say man was mistakenly released from Wandsworth prison on October 29

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1 week ago Algerian 'sex offender' on the run after being accidentally released from prison

The accidental release has happened just five days after a high-profile accidental release of sex offender Hadush Kebatu from HMP Chelmsford.

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1 week ago Chaos as a SECOND migrant is accidentally released from prison: Urgent hunt is launched for Algerian sex offender, 24, freed by mistake from Wandsworth

The Algerian convict, 24, is understood to have been serving time for trespass with an intent to steal but has previously committed sexual offences.

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1 week ago Manhunt for migrant 'sex offender' accidentally released from prison

The accidental release has happened just five days after a high-profile accidental release of sex offender Hadush Kebatu from HMP Chelmsford.

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1 week ago Manhunt for Algerian 'sex offender' accidentally released from prison

The accidental release has happened just five days after a high-profile accidental release of sex offender Hadush Kebatu from HMP Chelmsford.

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1 week ago Second asylum seeker inadvertently released from jail, MPs told, after Lammy dodges questions at PMQs – UK politics live

Lammy, standing in for Keir Starmer, avoided answering questions on the mistaken release during PMQsDavid Lammy starts by saying the PM is in Brazil.He says the thoughts of all MPs are still with the victims of the appalling attacks in Huntingdon and Peterborough, where, he says, he was at school for seven years. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Manhunt begins as asylum seeker accidentally released from south London prison

Manhunt begins as asylum seeker accidentally released from south London prison  This Is Local London

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