Good evening. The number of spare prison places in male jails has fallen to just 100, it emerged on Tuesday.
Elsewhere, Sir Keir Starmer has warned that October’s Budget will be “painful” and asked the country to “accept short-term pain for long-term good”.
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This is the closest the prison service has come to running out of space in male jails, although officials at the Ministry of Justice (MoJ) were hoping on Tuesday that they would not have to introduce further emergency measures.
The MoJ has already activated Operation Early Dawn, under which defendants are kept in police cells until prison spaces become available.
In a speech in the garden of Downing Street, the Prime Minister claimed that his Government had done more in seven weeks than the Conservative government did in seven years.
But he warned that “things are worse than we ever imagined” because of a £22 billion “black hole” in the public finances. Read more on the five taxes Labour could target in the October Budget here.
Liam and Noel Gallagher announced the return of Oasis with a secret black and white photoshoot by the British portrait photographer Simon Emmett.
Fans have waited 15 years for the brothers to be in the same room together – and while they may appear brooding in the newly-released pictures, their chemistry is reportedly “electric”. Read more on how to buy Oasis reunion tickets: Price, release date and advice here.
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