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Richard Burgon MP, Labour’s Shadow Justice Secretary, commenting on the Howard League for Penal Reform’s response to a joint inspection report of Medway secure training centre, said:  

“This damning report is a sharp reminder that the prisons crisis remains unchecked. 

“The new Justice Secretary must act quickly and explain how he is going to fix prisons and secure training centres which are violent and unsafe.  

“The public is less safe as a result of seven years of Tory prison mismanagement.

“The next Labour Government will recruit 3,000 extra prison officers to improve safety and end the understaffing.”

John McDonnell MP, Labour’s Shadow Chancellor, responding to today’s inflation figures, said:

“Today’s further rise in inflation is deeply worrying, and once again shows how the Tories’ seven years of failed economic policy means working people are losing out, with wages lagging behind prices since the Tories came to power.
“Young people in particular, are suffering from a widening pay gap between the under and over-24s – increased by age distinctions in the Tories’ so-called National Living Wage.

“And after seven wasted years of Tory economic failure with real wages falling behind prices, and living standards being squeezed, working people in our country simply cannot afford more of the same from Theresa May and her party.

“Only a Labour government will ensure working people’s living standards are protected with a real Living Wage of £10 per hour, and immediate end to austerity spending cuts. At a time when the government is in total disarray, if they will not act then they need to stand aside and let a Labour government build an economy that works for the many, not the few.”