Draft Legislative Programme

Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Prime Minister – in the House of Commons at 12:31 pm on 11 July 2007.

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Photo of Gordon Brown Gordon Brown The Prime Minister, Leader of the Labour Party 12:31, 11 July 2007

I hesitate to make a partisan point—but I will. The reason why we have had to legislate more on criminal justice is that crime doubled under the Conservative Government, and we had to take action to deal with it. I agree with the hon. and learned Gentleman that we want to consider better alternatives to prison in some cases, but we also need to build prison places. Again, I hope that there will be support from the Conservative party for doing that.