As we’ve reported, David Lammy was asked multiple times in deputy PMQs about any more asylum-seeker offender release.
He refused to answer. It is understood that the man who has been mistakenly let out is not an asylum seeker.
But the shadow defence secretary James Cartlidge has taken to social media to ask Lammy one more question:
“Can you tell me when you knew and when you were planning to tell the rest of us?”
It’s also understood that the Conservative Party found out about the mistaken release around 15 minutes before the start of deputy PMQs.
What else are the Conservatives saying?
Tory shadow home secretary Chris Philp describes the mistaken release as “shocking”.
He says: “It is shocking that once again the Labour Government has mistakenly allowed a foreign criminal to be released from prison.
“In my view all foreign criminals should be automatically deported at the end of their sentence. We will need to leave the ECHR (European Convention on Human Rights) to do that, but the Labour Government is too weak.”
