By James Hanson

In a strong field, David Lammy might just be the most incompetent member of this shambolic government.

As Foreign Secretary, he oversaw the disastrous Chagos Islands deal, in which the UK handed over sovereign territory and was forced to pay for the privilege. Demoted in Sir Keir Starmer’s recent reshuffle, his bumbling buffoonery is now unleashed on the Ministry of Justice.

Today marks his two-month anniversary in the post, during which time not one, but two foreign criminals have been accidentally released from British prisons.

First Hadush Kebatu, the paedophile asylum seeker whose sexual assault of a 14 year-old girl triggered this summer’s protests outside The Bell hotel in Epping.

He was mistakenly freed last month from HMP Chelmsford, instead of being deported, prompting a two-day manhunt.

And now we learn that, just five days later, the same thing happened again with another foreign criminal. This time a 24 year-old Algerian man, also locked up for........

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