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- Conservative minister Kemi Badenoch pledged to add 50,000 prison places.
- The plan would cost £2 billion per year and be completed within seven years.
- Funding would come from cutting the foreign aid budget to £1 billion annually and the DCMS budget by £1 billion.
- Labour’s early-release scheme will free about 5,000 prisoners this year, down from 6,000.