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Andy Burnham must prove he is serious by acting now to stop Labour’s early release scheme.

Without emergency legislation, dangerous violent and sexual offenders will be released at the start of September.

With the change Labour in government is delivering and will deliver, we have the chance to write a new chapter for our country, one which brings justice, opportunity and fairness for working people, one which brings back hope that tomorrow…

By uniting together, we will bring hope back to communities and strengthen British society against those working to divide us.

I am honoured to take on the role of Labour Party chair, working alongside our Prime Minister to put our Labour values and the voices of our movement at the heart of government.

They started firing at the closest point to us on their course, right in the middle of the TV interview, which they would have seen happening. It felt to me like an attempted intimidation to stop us covering the migrant crossings.

On the channel today monitoring illegal migrant crossings … as I was being interviewed by the BBC just now a French warship approached close and fired 17 live rounds behind us. There was no notice or training exercise in place. Felt like…

The situation with prisons is challenging but we never had killers, rapists, paedophiles on early release.

If Andy Burnham wants to prove that he is serious about this, he needs to revoke the commencement order...

We cannot say ‘no’ to every potential site for a prison.

We do need to build new prison places more quickly and cheaply.

If everybody says ‘no prison near me’, we won’t get these built.

I hear directly from athletes how much it means to them to represent Scotland on the world stage, and the Commonwealth Games, for many of our athletes, is the only opportunity for that to happen.

There was plenty of hateful behaviour being demonstrated at these demonstrations at the weekend.

I fully support Police Scotland and the effective measures that they took to bring the situation under control and I look forward to those responsible being brought to justice.

I thought the behaviour at the demonstrations was totally and utterly unacceptable, it is just unworthy of our streets to have the far-right rhetoric that was spewed out onto our streets, and the violence that went with it.

It was a demonstration of far-right hatred within the city of Glasgow at a time when the city was also welcoming representatives of 74 Commonwealth countries in a joyful set of sporting occasions throughout the city.

The reality is that the issue goes far deeper than Audrey Dempsey. She was the one addressing the fascist mob, but she did so with the implicit support of a party leadership that has spent the summer encouraging people to take part in…