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The prisons minister has dismissed Nigel Farage's plan to build prefabricated ad-hoc prisons as "absolutely ridiculous". In a scathing critique, James Timpson warned that "papier-mache" jails would be "unsafe for staff and the public", rejecting the Reform UK leader's proposal.

The minister, who boasts decades of experience in the justice sector, made these comments ahead of Reform UK's annual conference, which commences on Friday. The Birmingham event is anticipated to be dominated by justice, crime and migration issues following Mr Farage's summer 'Lawless Britain' campaign.

As part of this initiative, Mr Farage stated in July that his party would allocate £5 billion to construct five low-security 'Nightingale' prisons on disused Ministry of Defence land. He claimed that the plan

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