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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Nina Lloyd

Tories pledge to slash overseas aid budget to fund ‘biggest prison increase since Queen Victoria’

Kemi Badenoch has vowed to build 50,000 extra prison spaces by cutting the foreign aid budget down to £1 billion annually in an effort to bring an end to the early release of offenders.

The Conservatives stated that most of the new places would be created within a single parliament, with the full quota achieved inside seven years.

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