Tory Party distances itself from Aitken by setting up a separate inquiry into prisons
"The Conservative party is to launch an official inquiry into the failing prison system that is separate to the one being led by the disgraced cabinet minister Jonathan Aitken. The official party inquiry will examine overcrowding, and how more of the mentally ill and drug abusers can be kept out of prison, so reducing the pressure on the jail population".
It would appear that the Tory Party has lost its bottle over the controversial appointment of Jonathan Aitken to chair an inquiry into prisons by the Tory think tank the Centre for Social Justice. I don't see the purpose of setting up a separate inquiry save for its damage limitation value.
Instead of a product on a supermarket shelf with the added or no added sugar variety, we can have the prison inquiry with the added Jonathan Aitken or the no added Jonathan Aitken.
Perhaps, the Tory Party cannot bear to support a measure which is supported by the Guardian here?
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