Lammy says he was right not to discuss mistakenly freed prisoner at PMQs

Justice secretary says he did not have ‘all the detail’ at the time, and that there is ‘mountain to climb’ on prisons crisisDavid Lammy has said the government has a “mountain to climb” to tackle the prisons crisis and insisted that he “was not equipped with all the detail” when questioned in parliament about a mistaken prisoner release.After a fraudster mistakenly freed from prison handed himself in, the justice secretary told reporters he had been “right” not to provide details to MPs at prime minister’s questions about the release of a sex offender who remains at large. Continue reading...