The prisons system was “teetering on the edge of disaster” after being run “so hot for so long” by the previous government, prisons minister Lord Timpson has said, while speaking for the first time publicly since taking the role.

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The prisons system was “teetering on the edge of disaster” after being run “so hot for so long” by the previous government, prisons minister Lord Timpson has said, while speaking for the first time publicly since taking the role.