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William Whitelaw, the first Home Secretary in the three Thatcher governments, was of the opinion that 'building new prisons cannot by itself be a solution [to crime] . . . there could be a substantial fall in our use of imprisonment without any significant rise in the threat to individual safety' (Home Affairs Committee, 1981: 221).
In England again, Conservative Home Secretary Michael Howard proclaimed in 1993 that 'prison works', and that there were to be 'no more half-time sentences for full-time criminals'.
Thus, in England, restrictions on the imprisonment of young offenders, introduced in 1961, were removed in 1980; those serving life sentences would remain in prison until the Home Secretary, rather than the Parole Board, decided otherwise; at the same time
The reaction of Tony Blair, then Shadow Labour Home Secretary, was that 'a solution to this disintegration doesn't simply lie in legislation.
The then Shadow British Home Secretary, Jack Straw, thus promised that New Labour would 'wage war on aggressive beggars, winos and squeegee merchants . . . we have literally to reclaim the streets for the law- abiding public citizen, to make street life everywhere an innocent pleasure again' (The Independent, 5 September 1995: 2).
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