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He elaborated on the increased costs, stating: "For example, compared to the 2019 financial year, labour in this financial year has increased by approximately £164million, energy by £28million, repairs (also affected by labour costs) by £38million and interest (excluding IFRS 16 interest) by £16million."
While the UK and much of the world struggles with overcrowded prisons, the Netherlands has the opposite problem. It is actually short of people to lock up. In the past few years 19 prisons have closed down and more are slated for closure next year. How has this happened - and why do some people think it's a problem?
"If somebody has a drug problem we treat their addiction,
if they are aggressive we provide anger management,
if they have got money problems we give them debt counselling.
So we try to remove whatever it was that caused the crime. The inmate himself or herself must be willing to change but our method has been very effective. Over the last 10 years, our work has improved more and more."
He adds that some persistent offenders - known in the trade as "revolving-door criminals" - are eventually given two-year sentences and tailor-made rehabilitation programmes. Fewer than 10% then return to prison after their release.
In England and Wales, and in the United States, roughly half of those serving short sentences reoffend within two years, and the figure is often higher for young adults.
But the Prime Minister suggested he might favour a different model of offshore processing, where asylum claims can be heard close to countries of origin of migrants, for example by allowing those fleeing conflict zones to submit applications in neighbouring nations, as happened in the Ukrainian refugee scheme.
The term "boycott" originates from the actions taken against Charles Cunningham Boycott, an English land agent in 19th-century Ireland. Boycott worked for Lord Erne, a major landowner in County Mayo, and was known for his harsh treatment of tenants, including evictions and high rents. In 1880, during a period of agrarian unrest, the Irish Land League, led by Charles Stewart Parnell, initiated a campaign against Boycott. They encouraged local workers and tenants to withdraw their labor and services, effectively isolating him from the community. Shops refused to serve him, and even his mail was disrupted.
This non-violent form of protest gained significant attention, especially after Boycott wrote to the British press about his plight. The campaign against him became a cause célèbre, and the term "boycott" was coined to describe this method of social ostracism. The episode highlighted the power of collective action and had a lasting impact on labor and social movements worldwide.
More than 1,200 artists, athletes and academics have condemned the "injustice" of sentences handed to five Just Stop Oil activists for peaceful protests.
Setting out his stall to be the new leader, Mr Tugendhat said his party had lost the last election because it “lost the trust of the British people”.
“The public wanted the things we promised: lower taxes, lower immigration, more control over their everyday lives," he wrote in the Telegraph.
"Those are Conservative ideas. We just didn’t deliver.
“We couldn’t deliver because we were too focused on fighting each other.”
He also suggested he would be willing to leave the European Court of Human Rights if elected, saying: "We know that if institutions do not serve the British people and make it harder to control our own borders, then we will have to exempt ourselves from them, or leave their jurisdiction."
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