- New minister signals a shift in policy from his predecessor Ken Clarke
- Grayling wants more foreign prisoners sent home
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Chris Grayling yesterday ripped up Kenneth Clarke’s hugely controversial policy of seeking to reduce the prison population.
In his first appearance before MPs as Justice Secretary, Mr Grayling took a far harder line on law and order than his predecessor.
He told the Commons: ‘The only changes I want to see to the prison population will come through returning more foreign national prisoners to their countries of origin.’
Mr Clarke, who was shifted to the post of minister without portfolio in this month’s Cabinet reshuffle, had angered backbench MPs by shifting away from the party’s traditional view that ‘prison works’.
He claimed that ‘just banging up more and more people for longer without actively seeking to change them is what you would expect of Victorian England’.
But Mr Grayling yesterday said his strategy for making room in packed jails would be to try to deport more foreign convicts to serve their sentences overseas.
Our jails contain inmates from 156 countries – more than three out of every four nations in the world.
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