Today’s Prime Minister’s Questions – taken by Deputy Prime Minister David Lammy – had a sting in the tail. The exchanges between Lammy and his Conservative counterpart James Cartlidge centred on the accidental release of convicted sex offender, Hadush Kebatu. Lammy was asked whether any other asylum seekers had been accidentally released from prison. Significantly, the Deputy PM repeatedly avoided answering that question, presumably because he knew – as Cartlidge will have done – that news was about to break of another such release. At the very end of PMQs, Cartlidge made a point of order to announce that it had been reported that a manhunt was underway after a 24-year-old Algerian man had been released from HMP Wandsworth in error six days ago.

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