James Timpson’s appointment: a glimpse of grace
Newly elected prime minister Keir Starmer wasted little time in announcing his first cabinet following the Labour Party’s general election victory on 4 July. Amidst the flurry of appointments, one in particular caught the media’s eye: the new prisons minister. James Timpson is CEO of the ‘Timpson’ retailer, and until very recently, chair of the Prison Reform Trust. He’s now facing the task of fixing a creaking prison system. Projections from the Institute for Government suggest that the UK’s prisons could be just ‘days away�...
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