Former minister is launching bid to push Sunak to right on immigration policy
John Swinney has been sworn in as Scotland’s new first minister at the Court of Session in Edinburgh, PA Media reports. PA says:
Scotland’s most senior judge, the Lord President Lord Carloway, presided over the ceremony.
The Perthshire North MSP made his statutory declarations and was granted his official title of First Minister and Keeper of the Scottish Seal.
An email sent to probation and prison staff, obtained by The Times, said measures introduced less than two months ago had failed to ease pressure in men’s prisons in England and Wales.
It said that a scheme that allows prisoners to be set free before their release date will be extended from 35 days to 70 days from May 23.
The Tories have once again used a cloak of secrecy to hide their early release of violent criminals. It’s completely unacceptable and the public has a right to know the truth.
After 14 years of Conservative chaos and the utter mismanagement of the prison estate, the government cannot keep extending the early release of prisoners without facing public scrutiny.
