Labour has now been in power, with a massive majority, for two and a quarter years. Prisoners continue to be released early, and look what's happened to prison places👇 June 2025: 89,573 June 2026: 89,120 That's a fall of 453 places.

New prison in Leyland, Lancs: Signed off by Rayner late 2024. Went to High Court causing a delay of 2 years. Contract signed this week for enabling works. And there is your problem - planning. Could have been built by 2029, instead its 2031. How many prisons did your lot build?

The Chinese would have got it done in six months.

Yes they probably would. And if we still had plenty of Polish here so would we. Alas.....

Doesn’t matter how many polish builders you have if everything is held up by newts and bats.

Nah, it's the Reform council. They're bloody terrible, Tom.

Because they keep imprisoning people for swearing at police and releasing people who raped kids.

How long does it take to build a prison Tom?

guess it takes time to build? although, would prefer probably building a tad bit more than merely 5000 more spaces...

Plenty of space in jails for white people who aren’t on the left politically 🧐 2 years for throwing a plastic bottle !

Building prisons takes a long time. Almost as long as rebuilding the broken prison and probation services, or suitable re habitation centres

All those thought criminals eh

If you're so concerned why don't you get a job as a prison officer?

How long does it take to build prisons you numpty

It's a fall Tom

ER has been a thing for at least 2 centuries. Look it up.

I think you’ll find it takes rather longer than 2 years to build and utilise a new prison.

How many did the Tories cut capacity by? 1,000s wasn’t it?