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Justice Secretary Dominic Raab must decide whether to approve the Parole Board’s recommendation to move Adam Swellings.

A spokesperson for the Prime Minister was not immediately able to confirm what role Deputy Prime Minister Dominic Raab would play while Mr Johnson was having some down time

We now smell not just a whiff of hypocrisy but an overpowering stench of it and as so often with the Tories, they talk tough on crime, only to go weak on the causes of it.

Paperwork reveals Raab sent a junior official to act on his behalf at the parole hearing to free Baby P's mother Tracey Connelly - the baby died in agony suffering a fractured spine and eight broken ribs

Exclusive: Dominic Raab accused over curbs that will hit ethnic minorities in ‘two-tier assault on our rights’

Kit Malthouse also said he believes Boris Johnson will probably declare if he is issued with a fixed-penalty notice.

Adam Swellings is the last of Garry Newloves killers who remains in prison. The drunk gang attacked the dad in 2007 after he reprimanded them for vandalising cars outside his home

Peter Connelly died aged 17 months on August 3, 2007 at the hands of his mother, Tracey Connelly, her boyfriend, Steven Barker, and their lodger Jason Owen at their home in Tottenham. His death followed months of abuse, which left him with more than 50 injuries including a broken back.

Justice secretary told parliament ‘ministerial oversight’ of dangerous prisoners would be introduced - but there is no legal basis