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Mr Farage, Mr Polanski, Mrs Badenoch and Sir Keir’s faces all featured on the poster | GB NEWS<\/p>\nDavid Lammy has been accused of “rank incompetence” by his fellow Cabinet ministers after a multitude of blunders over mistakenly released prisoners.<\/p>\n
The accidental release of a 24-year-old Algerian prisoner, who is on the sex offenders register, from HMP Wandsworth in south London on October 29, was the core of the complaints by Labour ministers. <\/p>\n
Mr Lammy, the Justice Secretary, subsequently dismissed a call from Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle to return to Parliament after he repeatedly refused to confirm that Brahim Kaddour-Cherif had been freed amid concerns it would be “career suicide”.<\/p>\n
One Cabinet minister told The Times: “It\u2019s cowardly. He should have fronted up and owned it.<\/p>\n
“I still don\u2019t understand why he didn\u2019t confirm it or make a statement in the Commons. He left it to a junior minister to do the broadcast round this morning. The handling is terrible.”<\/p>\n
Another minister added: “The PLP [Parliamentary Labour Party] are deeply unhappy. They think the way he has handled this is awful. Why can\u2019t he just hold his hands up?”<\/p>\n
A senior Government source said: “It feels less like a contempt [of parliament] issue, more just rank incompetence and frankly pretty dodgy.”<\/p>\n
The Prime Minister stood by Mr Lammy when pressed about it by reporters in Brazil ahead of Cop30.<\/p>\n
Sir Keir Starmer said: “Let me just say how angry and frustrated I am that these mistakes have been made in releasing people. They\u2019re intolerable and they shouldn\u2019t be made.<\/p>\n
“A lot of it comes from the burden and the strain on the system because of the failures of the last Government. But I recognise it\u2019s our job to step up and to fix this, and we will.<\/p>\n
“David Lammy, the Justice Secretary, has convened the governors to talk to them about what more can be done, but we must put the systems in place to ensure that this doesn\u2019t happen again, and we will.”<\/p>\n
Pressed on whether Mr Lammy was telling the truth on Wednesday or in his latest comments, Sir Keir said: “David Lammy can speak for himself on that. <\/p>\n
“And I\u2019m absolutely clear that he\u2019s setting out the facts to the best of his knowledge, and that\u2019s the right thing for him to do.”<\/p>\n
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Claire Coutinho slams ‘shameful’ David Lammy – ‘There is no sympathy from me!’<\/p>\n
Claire Coutinho has slammed David Lammy’s performance at PMQs yesterday, saying she has no sympathy for the Justice Secretary.<\/p>\n
The Shadow Energy Secretary told GB News: “If the personell isn’t working you have got to change it. There is no sympathy from me.<\/p>\n
“The most shameful part for me is he didn’t come back to the house after PMQs yesterday.”<\/p>\n
“He left it to a junior minister to answer for it yesterday morning on the media. That to me was pretty shameful.”<\/p>\n
Arabic poster urging Labour voters to switch to Greens to block Reform spotted in London<\/p>\n
A poster calling for Arabic speakers to vote for the Green Party to stop Nigel Farage winning the next General Election has been spotted at a London bus stop.<\/p>\n
GB News has seen a photo of the poster, which was accompanied by an English version, on Edgware Road earlier today.<\/p>\n
The poster, which was not accompanied with any labelling to suggest it had been sanctioned by the Green Party, urged residents in the Queen’s Park & Maida Vale constituency to tactically block Nigel Farage’s march to power.<\/p>\n
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