A nice progressive move from Labour: apparently James Timpson is being given a peerage and made prisons minister.
For non UK folk, his high street chain of key cutting and shoe repair shops has a policy of employing ex-convicts giving them decent jobs to avoid reoffending. It works.
Simon Bisson /
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2024-07-05 18:50:25
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