Alex Norris: “We promised to close every asylum hotel and hand them back to communities, and that is exactly what we are doing.”

Offenders should carry the consequences of their crimes, not their victims.

I'm pleased with the work that we're doing with France. That's reduced 46,000 preventions already this year. We are seeing some positive steps forward... but we've got to keep doing that work to dissuade people from making those dangerous…

If we drew it any wider we would have a prison capacity crisis.

I know that’s difficult. I know that’s created harm, and it’s not Lissie Harper’s fault, and I’m sorry that she’s been put into this situation as a result, I genuinely am.