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Keir and prison danger

The New Statesman's Freddie Hayward joins the Inside Briefing team to reflect on Keir Starmer’s busy first week as prime minister.

The New Statesman's Freddie Hayward joins the Inside Briefing team to reflect on Keir Starmer’s busy first week as prime minister, with the PM appointing new ministers, the government firing off press releases and policy announcements, and Rachel Reeves making her first big speech as chancellor.

But Starmer is also facing his first difficult decision: how to deal with a major crisis in prisons. England and Wales are on the brink of running out of cells...

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