The government is “managing the risk” to public safety with its emergency measures to prevent prisons from overcrowding, Sir Keir Starmer said.
Speaking during a trip to Belfast, the Prime Minister blamed the “terrible inheritance” from the Conservative government and the recent far-right riots on his need to activate Operation Early Dawn as Sky’s Becky Johnson reports.
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Correct me if I'm wrong Kier Starlin was in opposition I didn't hear him disagreeing with anything the cons were doing the only thing he strongly disagreed with was the removal of illegal visitors and their arrival to these shores.
What do they mean no places. What about Rwanda??
Starmer should look closer to home his pal Blair was the one who opened the boarders and let’s not forget about WMD that destroyed another country! So if he wants to blame anyone look no further than the Labour Party.
liberal faschistic idiot says that they don’t have enough places for prisoners,that make sense when they arrest everyone with different opinion.
Reform 👍🇬🇧🏴
Lock starmer up for treason !!! He is a disgrace !!! Get him out !!
Instead of playing blame games, do what needs to be done
The Prime Traitor
corporate media doesn't report news – it tries to control the narritive of the popualtion.
but fails.
Well 14 years of them they could of built new one in the 14 years but didn't
Doesn't he realise yet the whole country hates him and thinks he's the worst PM. EVER!
Tool.
Seulla Bravamans army
Conservative party never had riots or locked people up for tweets and never did early dawn to release criminals to get far right in prison and now labour are making misogyny and terror crime they didn't inherit these problems they caused them and make things even worse ever couple of weeks
Labour adding millions of people to england did not make the prison population go up did it starmer inherited his problems .from the last labour goverment
Labour in all countries puts its fingers up at all who voted for them. So they vote labour again
Half of the prison population is non British.
Hes got a nerve hes sending everyone to jail
lmao they deleted my comment factually stating people blamed boris for not helping out in the floods on the literal first day he was signed in while it was flooded before that but a month into starmers reign hes only making things worse not better
How many Labour voters came across the channel at the weekend?
Yet, he won’t acknowledge why prisons are overcrowded to begin with. And just like that, serious criminals will be set free to make more space for thought criminals.
2TK absolute liar,Keir Starmer is rapidly becoming the tories best friend. In five years, the Conservative Party will do to Labour what Labour did to them. Rachel Reeves and Keir Starmer are looking for excuses. Starmer had the bare faced cheek to accuse the tories of lying and mismanagement of the country. He brands people far right for having an opinion and is now trying to erode common law rights further. We now have higher immigration,unrest in the streets, and crime on the increase. Thanks Kier don't do us any favours,we'll just bankroll your incompetence.
Starmer is a globalist tyrant. He should be sent to the Tower of London to serve out his lengthy incarceration.
Maybe people who say misinformation or things that could offend others online should get a different punishment to those actually committing violence. We don't need to free other prisoners for them, they should just get their posts deleted and have corrections spread instead, at worst they should get a fine or community service; not go to prison and have their lives ruined for what they say online.
What too tough on crime!
Blame game now little man
Starmer is throwing people in jail for inciting hatred, he’s the biggest culprit and It’s strange how the people expressing an opinion online were charged and thrown in prison within hours, but other criminals will be given suspended sentences for more serious crimes because the prisons are too full. Starmer do us a favor and resign.
The solution to capacity prisons is to allow early release? Omg. Whats the point of the judge passing down the sentence if it cant be enforced due to poor planning by the government and prison authorities?
I’ve friends that stopped watching BBC News because they perceived it was biased. So what do they now watch? GB News!!! In other words they weren’t bothered about bias, it’s just the bias wasn’t leaning the way they wanted. Sky, BBC, ITV, C4 all try to present news without bias. Sometimes they fall short but by and large their news is trustworthy and balanced.
As regards the comments section – recently the rhetoric and racist bias from the far right has become disgraceful I think it’s correct for broadcasters to just dissuade comment by just turning them off.
Those people that don’t trust the media should really look in the mirror and ask themselves whether they have a bias. Perhaps that is the issue.
Knowing stress it has put on system and Starmer still dose’s it that tells me he shouldn’t be in power
Liebour and Bliar started the rot, the establishment & tories continued to plunder our best resort ( the people) now the Communists are in? Only middle to right wing government will sort this country out. And that means banning the terrorist flags of the world from our streets and town halls@
Starmer needs to be prosecuted
Mass immigration issues as usual.
Blind leadership.
Typical Luebour, Promise everything, deliver nothing, blame everybody else!
Yes Tories DID do a lot of harm in their 14 years but Starmer is just as much to blame for what is happening now, simply trying to deter from responsibility
"It's the Tories fault I am inciting this two tiered policing, it's their fault I am racist towards British, it's your fault I am determined to bring this country onto its knees (at best), it's my father's fault I am a bad tool running this country"
Well they are making everything worse if they done the jobs right this wouldn't be happening stop passing the book and get us to being GREAT BRITAIN AGAIN 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Starmer is the problem. His far left views result in him calling UK indigenous citizens ‘racist thugs’. He should be arrested for inciting racial hatred.
All it needs now are huge prison riots: God forbid.
What a Tool.
Oh right ok it’s got nothing to do with throwing every man and his dog prison then!?!?!
Dinghy divers every day and thought criminals no wonder Kier Stalin needs more prison spaces.
We are all far right now 😢