PM talks about ‘tough decisions’ of early prison release

DO NOT USE THIS FOOTAGE On a visit to Northern Ireland, Sir Keir Starmer is asked whether Operation Early Dawn posed a risk to public safety, in respect of policing resources being diverted or prisoners being bailed when they otherwise would not be.

“Well, these decisions are really tough decisions, and nobody wants to take them, they are difficult decisions," he tells reporters at the PSNI's training college in Belfast.

Report by Blairm.

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