Bridget Phillipson: “There has been a squeamishness in talking about class and it was a big area that's been missing in policy formation.”

When she had her say, I just kind of said that people would find her out for who she really was.

We have faced some really difficult and unpalatable choices because of the huge crisis that was left behind in the prisons estate.

But the reality of what we are confronting is that, if allowed to go unchecked, we could end up in a position where someone who was arrested for very serious offences, for example, offences related to violence against a woman, and we…

For some of them, I guess they think I should just get back in my box.