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Justice Secretary Chris Grayling insisted yesterday that it was safe to sell off the probation service, despite a leaked government assessment saying the opposite.
Mr Grayling told the justice select committee that the report was "theoretical" and refused demands to release other internal risk assessments into the sell-off.
Under the government's plans up to 70 per cent of the probation service would be sold off.
The HS2 debacle exposes what happens when public infrastructure is handed to private contractors – especially when set against China’s state-led high-speed rail success, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
In the second part of her critique of Wes Streeting’s TenYear Plan for Health, HELEN MERCER looks at the central planks of this privatisation blueprint
