Justice secretary: 'I'm prepared to do whatever it takes to keep this country safe'

The justice secretary has announced plans to build new prisons and tackle overcrowding. When asked if Shabana Mahmood was prepared to be unpopular by Sky's Sophy Ridge, she said: "The thing I'm prepared to do is to make sure we never ever run out of prison places again. At the moment as things stand today by November we go down to zero." She went on to criticise the previous government for leaving them in this position and added that she was "prepared to do whatever it takes to keep this country safe, to make sure we never run out of prison places and we never see the collapse of the prison system or our wider law and order system." Read the latest: https://news.sky.com/story/politics-latest-local-elections-labour-reform-starmer-farage-tories-lib-dems-greens-12593360 #prisonsystem #crisis #uknews #ukgovernment #prisons #sophyridge SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel for more videos: http://www.youtube.com/skynews Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/skynews Like us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/skynews Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/skynews Follow us on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@skynews For more content go to http://news.sky.com and download our apps: Apple https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/sky-news/id316391924?mt=8 Android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bskyb.skynews.android&hl=en_GB Sky News Daily podcast is available for free here: https://podfollow.com/skynewsdaily/ Sky News videos are now available in Spanish here/Los video de Sky News están disponibles en español aquí: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzG5BnqHO8oNlrPDW9CYJog To enquire about licensing Sky News content, you can find more information here: https://news.sky.com/info/library-sales