The Latest Breaking News from Shabana Mahmood

Labour’s justice secretary Shabana Mahmood says the report ‘lays bare the disgraceful way the last Conservative government ran our prisons’

Emergency measures bailed out jails at last minute as No 10 refused to cut prisoner numbers until ‘cliff edge’ reached, former watchdog reports

PM chairs emergency cabinet meeting to outline peace plan – including historic shift in UK policy on Palestine

Whether the UK should leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) has been a debate in UK politics for years. Conservatives have long accused the convention of interfering with government policy on migration and criminal justice, and have debated repealing the Human Rights Act 1998 (which enshrines the convention…

Justice secretary ‘determined to keep prison staff safe’ as rates of assaults on officers reached record levels last year

Specialist officers based in Kidlington, Oxfordshire, and Doncaster, South Yorkshire, will be the first to become equipped with Tasers from Monday.

Prime minister faces growing demands to recognise a Palestinian state immediately amid mounting global anger over the starving population in Gaza

Cooper, 77, paid tribute to the Black Sabbath frontman following the news of his death on Tuesday evening.

Lords say jails are in crisis due to years of political and bureaucratic failure