The Latest Breaking News from Alex Chalk

More countries added to UK’s ‘deport first’ scheme for foreign criminals

Former justice secretaries criticise expansion of policy that they say allows perpetrators to go unpunished

The Guardian - UK · Aug 10, 2025

Ex-Justice Secretary kept in the dark about 'unbelievably serious' courts IT bug issue

Alex Chalk said the IT issue could be compared to the Post Office Horizon scandal

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2025

‘Troubling’ courts service IT bug ‘extremely serious’ – former lord chancellor

The Social Security and Child Support Tribunal, which handles benefit appeals, is thought to have been most affected, according to the BBC.

Evening Standard · Aug 8, 2025

Andrew Malkinson says miscarriage of justice watchdog should be ‘dissolved’

Exclusive: Man jailed for 17 years for rape he did not commit says CCRC is ‘infected with a culture of denial’

The Guardian - UK · Jan 15, 2025

Inside HMP Wandsworth: How Daniel Khalife’s escape reveals ‘shocking’ prison chaos

It was revealed two guards checked the truck that Daniel Khalife escaped under

The Independent UK · Nov 28, 2024

Prisons crisis and chaos at HMP Wandsworth laid bare in wake of Khalife’s escape

Khalife made his escape in September last year, while being held on remand over spy charges, by strapping himself underneath a food delivery lorry.

Evening Standard · Nov 28, 2024

We can’t lock up ‘everyone we’re cross with’, says ex-justice secretary

Former Tory MP Alex Chalk said focus should be on keeping ‘criminals we’re most scared of’ in prison, ahead of Labour’s early release scheme

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2024

Courts should not be locking up ‘everyone we’re cross with’, says former Justice Secretary Alex Chalk

The prison population reached a new record high of 88,521 people on Friday.

Evening Standard · Sep 7, 2024

Prison population hits record high as ‘half-baked and unworkable’ plan to send convicts to Estonia slammed

Dame Angela Eagle, the Home Office minister, refused to deny reports that some inmates could serve their sentences in the eastern European country, and admitted there were too few places in UK prisons

The Independent UK · Sep 6, 2024

Sunak rejected advice to release prisoners early a year ago

Discussions took place in June 2023 but aides thought backbenchers would reject proposal to ease overcrowding

The Guardian - UK · Jul 25, 2024