Prisoners will still be released 70 days early, Sir Keir Starmer admits, after minister says 2 in 3 shouldn’t be in jail [Video]

PRISONERS will still be freed early under a Labour government, Sir Keir Starmer admitted yesterday.

The prime minister conceded controversial rules letting lags out up to 70 days before their release date would stay.

Prisoners will continue to be let out early because the system is a ‘mess’, Sir Keir saidCredit: PA

Sir Keir this afternoon held his first press conferenceCredit: Reuters

And he refused to distance himself from his prisons minister’s claim that two in three inmates shouldn’t even be in jail.

In his first press conference inside No.10, the PM slammed the “broken” prison system, declaring: “We’ve got too many prisoners, not enough prisons.

“We will fix that, but we can’t fix it overnight.

“And therefore it is impossible to simply say we will stop the early release of prisoners and you wouldn’t believe me if I did say it.”

He claimed he had been forced to keep releasing crooks early because of the Tories’ “monumental failure” to build …