All the evidence shows voters want Labour to shift to the left — but initial signs from Andy Burnham are worrying on that front, cautions DIANE ABBOTT
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Prisons: ‘Failing’ Grayling's lesser-known major cock up
A report by the National Audit Office suggests the bumbling minister did not understand what he was doing when he privatised prison services, writes SOLOMON HUGHES
WHAT’S HE DONE NOW? Tory disaster Chris Grayling
ANDY McDONALD MP says Labour must show it is capable of delivering real improvements in people’s lives — bold action is required
ANGUS REID and ANDREW JOHNSTONE report on an initiative that we must take this summer
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France Insoumise MP JEROME LEGAVRE speaks to Christophe Domec on building the Europe-wide peace movement that came together in the International Conference Against War last weekend
At last weekend’s International Conference Against War, LINDA PENTZ GUNTER talks to the Palestinian physician and politician about the struggles ahead to achieve a truly free Palestine
PRIVATISATION is bad. Chris Grayling is bad. Now-defunct Carillion was bad, but still-trading privatisation corporation Amey is also bad.
That’s the lesson of the highly critical National Audit Office report into Grayling’s prison privatisation, published this February.
The Audit Office is the government’s official spending watchdog. Its report, entitled “Improving the Prison Estate,” shows how Grayling, Carillion and Amey didn’t improve the state of prisons at all.
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