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‘Completely unacceptable’ that mistaken prisoner releases have gone up under Labour, minister says – UK politics live ‘Even one is too many,’ culture secretary Lisa Nandy tells Sky News David Lammy’s refusal to confirm whether any more asylum seekers had been wrongly released since Hadush Kebatu (a convicted child sex offender who arrived in the UK in a small boat and was mistakenly released from prison in October) at prime minister’s questions was a “profound mistake”, the shadow defence secretary told Sky News. James Cartlidge said: All I knew was we had a tip-off there was another such case, we didn’t know for certain. You can’t know for certain unless you’re running the department and he stood up and answered my questions. I don’t accept that he was being evasive. I was in the House of Commons chamber, I was there, I was sitting next to the home secretary, and I could see that he was weighing up in his mind what information to release. He was asked about an asylum seeker. The case in question was not an asylum seeker. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2025/nov/09/mistaken-prisoner-releases-labour-budget-uk-politics-live?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=bluesky&CMP=bsky_gu