SHADOW justice secretary Richard Burgon demanded answers from the Tories today over plans to build new prisons under private finance initiatives (PFI).
Responding to the announcement of a new PFI-funded prison in Leicestershire, Mr Burgon accused ministers of “obfuscating” over how 10,000 new prison places would be paid for, saying: “Now we know why.”
He said the Ministry of Justice had been “cut more than any other department.
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