Labour “will get prisons built,” the shadow justice secretary has said. 

Shabana Mahmood made the pledge earlier today on Sky’s Sunday Morning With Trevor Phillips.

She was asked how a Labour government would deal with growing prisoner numbers over the next five years should they win the next election.

Ms Mahmood said: “The money is there in the ministry of justice budget already. 

“It’s just that the Tory government has completely failed to actually get the prison spaces built that we need in this country. 

“They had a target themselves… They failed on that target. 

“Where government has failed, we will deliver.”

Alongside “getting prisons built”, she said Labour plans to invest in neighbourhood policing and bring in respect orders. 

“We have a big problem with antisocial behaviour and we have to deal with it so that we can reclaim our high streets,” she said.

Will Labour or the Conservatives win the next election? Latest polling from the Sky News live tracker

The Sky News live poll tracker – collated and updated by our Data and Forensics team – aggregates various surveys to indicate how voters feel about the different political parties.

With the local election campaign well under way, Labour is still sitting comfortably on a roughly 21-point lead, averaging at 43.6% in the polls, with the Tories on 23.1%.

In third is Reform UK on 12.3%, followed by the Lib Dems on 9.2%.

The Green Party stands at 6.5%, and the SNP on 3.1%.