Schools minister Georgia Gould has been speaking to the Politics Hub tonight.

She is asked about the mistaken release of prisoners -  including foreign sex offenders like Brahim Kaddour-Cherif.

Gould insists the matter is being investigated, and claims Labour inherited a "broken system" from the Conservatives.

She repeats the claim from the government that they could not say anything before the Met Police had released their announcement that Kaddour-Cherif had gone AWOL.

"It's really important that we always follow due process," she said.

Asked if Lammy should go back to the Commons and apologise, Gould says she is sure Parliament will "discuss" the matter.

"We are ready to be held to account on our actions," the minister says.

Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, the 24-year-old foreign offender who was released from HMP Wandsworth by mistake, entered the UK legally in 2019, Paste BN understands.

They came into the country in 2019 on a visit visa, but overstayed and an immigration case was started against them.

Paste BN understands that they deportation proceedings had started against Kaddour-Cherif.

The prison at the centre of the released foreign offender incident today released another offender in error on Monday.

The foreign offender, Brahim Kaddour-Cherif, was released last week.

Surrey Police has confirmed that William Smith, 35, was released in error on Monday. He is also known as Billy.

Surrey Police said: "Smith was sentenced to 45 months for multiple fraud offences at Croydon Crown Court on Monday 3 November, during which he appeared via a live video link from HMP Wandsworth."

A manhunt is under way, with police saying a "number of enquiries" are being carried out "at pace".

Smith is said to have links to Woking but could be anywhere  in Surrey.

Will Forster, the Lib Dem MP for Woking, said: "It's utterly unacceptable that this person was wrongly released, especially on top of Brahim Kaddour-Cherif's mistaken release from the same prison last week."

He added that police have told him there is "no indication of risk to the wider public".

In parliament, Education Secretary Bridget Phillipson spoke about the government's planned reforms to the school curriculum.

She said the changes would allow school pupils to deal with the "dark forces" online that promote misinformation.

"To discover the power of persuasion and emotive language in different contexts, and to understand how they can be used not just to educate, but to manipulate - exploited by dark forces online to spread lies and sow division," Phillipson said.

"That's why we're building literacy, preparing young people not to consume passively, but to engage critically, to recognise and reject disinformation."

Here are some of the proposals:

• Publishing a revised curriculum in 2027 to be implemented in 2028.

• A new GCSE curriculum to be prepared for first teaching from 2029.

• New V-level qualifications to be introduced in 2027.

• Scrapping the English Baccalaureate, introduced in 2011. 

• Introducing a statutory reading test for Year 8 students. 

• Training students on media literacy: "Preparing them to tell fact from fiction, truth from lies, right from wrong".

• Reforming the computing curriculum, to "navigate the opportunities and challenges of AI". 

• Introducing lessons in financial literacy to "empower young people to make informed choices about money, saving, and investing".

• Cutting down on exam time by 10%, shaving between 2.5-3 hours in exams for each student.

• New training for reception teachers "to meet our ambition for 90% of children to reach the expected standard in the phonic screening check".

• Increase take-up of triple science, which is less accessible to "young people from disadvantaged backgrounds".

The education secretary described the plans as "bold" and said they will help to evolve the curriculum from "narrow to broad".

Shadow justice secretary Robert Jenrick has written to David Lammy in response to the prisoner accidentally released.

As a reminder, Lammy was asked if another asylum seeker had been released following Hadush Kebatu last month.

But the deputy prime minister was not forthcoming with any examples - although it emerged a foreign national (Paste BN understands they were not an asylum seeker) had indeed been released in error last week.

Jenrick claims in his letter that Lammy's "evasion was not a one off."

"You have consistently refused to answer basic written questions."

He added that "under this government's watch, accidental releases have more than doubled".

Mr Jenrick went on: "The British people are being put at risk by the sheer incompetence of your government. 

"Victims are being failed relentlessly. 

"The public deserve answers as to what has happened and what you are finally going to do about it."

Jenrick goes on to ask five questions, including when Lammy was made aware of the latest missing prisoner, why he did not tell the public, why the police were not told immediately, what the person's migration status and criminal record are, whether the victim is being supported, whether any staff have been punished, whether updated stats on mistaken releases will be published and whether a "proper plan" to stop accidental releases will be set out.

The shadow minister goes on to call for Lammy to make an update in the House of Commons today.

James Cartlidge, the softly spoken Tory who mauled David Lammy at deputy prime minister's questions, is suddenly being hailed as the Conservatives' unlikely attack dog.

The polite, normally unassuming, silver-haired MP for Suffolk South was probably as surprised as anyone when Kemi Badenoch asked him to deputise for her at PMQs.

With the deputy prime minister standing in for Sir Keir Starmer, who's on his way to Brazil for the COP30 climate summit, the Tories kept everyone at Westminster guessing overnight about who would oppose Lammy.

Shadow Northern Ireland secretary Alex Burghart has been pretty impressive in the understudy role, so he was favourite. 

But shadow chancellor Sir Mel Stride and shadow home secretary Chris Philp have also been given a go.

But when the Conservatives let it be known at 9.30am that it would be none of the previous understudies but the little-known Cartlidge, there will have been many people scratching their head and asking: "Who?"

And since it was November 5, Guy Fawkes' Night, few MPs will have been expecting fireworks from the low-profile Cartlidge.

His questions were a slow burn, but eventually fizzed and - with his theatrical disclosure at the of PMQs revealing another prison release blunder - theatrically blew up in Mr Lammy's face.

Another question, though: given that Lammy is justice secretary as well as DPM, why wasn't Robert Jenrick, the shadow justice secretary who lampoons his opponent as "Calamity Lammy", given the job?

Well that's obvious! 

The Tory leader may be known to her critics as "Kemi-kaze", but she's not stupid and wasn't going to present her deadly leadership rival "Bobby J" with an open goal at PMQs.

Cartlidge has only been an MP since 2015. 

He was a comprehensive schoolboy before going to Manchester University and then founding a property business.

Once elected to the Commons, he was a parliamentary bag carrier for Rishi Sunak, Ben Wallace and Jeremy Hunt before being a whip, justice minister, Treasury minister and defence minister.

He's the son-in-law of right-winger Gerald Howarth, a colourful and controversial Margaret Thatcher devotee. A former defence minister, Howarth notably opposed the lifting of the ban on homosexuals in the military.

Cartlidge quit Boris Johnson's government in 2022 over the Chris Pincher scandal. 

But apart from that gesture, his career until now could probably be described – albeit harshly – as worthy but dull.

Until now, that is. 

MPs may have previously quoted the old joke that Cartlidge is not even a household name in his own home.

But as Lammy lost his temper under his persistent questioning about another asylum-seeking offender being accidentally released from prison, he kept his cool, doggedly asking the same question five times.

And after learning what we now know about the release by mistake of another prisoner, this time from Wandsworth prison in south-west London, the full impact of Cartlidge's triumph has become clear.

He's a Tory hero now. 

After PMQs, Badenoch praised him for doing "a superb job". 

He did indeed. 

The Conservatives have found a new attack dog.

By Tim Baker, political reporter

Nvidia boss Jensen Huang has told Paste BN the AI sector is a "long, long away" from a Big Short-style collapse.

Speaking outside Downing Street following a roundtable with government and other industry figures, the head of the world's first $5tn company defended his sector from criticism by investor Michael Burry.

Mr Burry and his firm, Scion Capital, gained notoriety for "shorting" - betting against - the US housing market ahead of the 2008 financial crash.

He was portrayed by Christian Bale in the 2015 film The Big Short, which also starred Steve Carell, Brad Pitt and Ryan Gosling.

Earlier this week, filings revealed Mr Burry has now bet against Nvidia and on social media, he has suggested there is a bubble in the sector.

Some $500bn was wiped off technology stocks overnight Tuesday into Wednesday, Bloomberg reported.

Could we see Justice Secretary David Lammy back in the Commons, talking to MPs about the foreign offender who's been wrongly released?

Conservative MPs are furious with the government, after Lammy (also the deputy PM) refused to answer whether this was the case five times, despite repeated questions from James Cartlidge.

Tory leader Kemi Badenoch's spokesperson has said Lammy should make a statement "as soon as possible".

Meanwhile, the Liberal Democrats have said the public deserve "a full explanation" and that he should come "back before parliament this afternoon".

It's also understood that Lammy learned overnight about the 24-year-old being wrongly released.

But he believed it would have been irresponsible to talk about the mistaken release of a second foreign prisoner while details were still emerging, it is understood. 

So, could Lammy either be dragged back to the chamber, or choose to make a statement?

In short, it's possible - but only if the justice secretary volunteers.

It's too late for MPs to demand an 'urgent question' on the issue, which is a parliamentary device used to summon a minister to the chamber to talk about a particular issue and to answer questions. 

MPs must request one of these from the Speaker two hours before the House begins sitting for the day.

That deadline has clearly passed, so he cannot be summoned back to the Commons today. 

Both the Commons and the Lords are also not sitting from this evening for several days, as they enter the autumn recess.

It means the next time MPs could ask the speaker for an urgent question would be on Tuesday morning.

What about if Lammy volunteers to come back to answer questions?

In theory, the justice secretary could make a statement to the Commons, before MPs rise for recess this evening.

So, it might be possible to hear from Lammy - but don't hold your breath.

David Lammy knew that a foreign offender had been mistakenly released from prison when he attended deputy PMQs, it is understood. 

The justice secretary was informed overnight about the development, Sky understands. 

But Lammy, also the deputy PM, felt it would be irresponsible for him to talk about the case while details were emerging.

This is why he declined to answer questions about whether a foreign offender had been accidentally released when pressed by the shadow defence secretary, James Cartlidge. 

In his statement, Lammy has also confirmed that the Metropolitan Police began to search for the 24-year-old Algerian man overnight, after they were informed by the Prison Service yesterday.

This was six days after the man was first let out of HMP Wandsworth, though it appears the Met was only informed yesterday.

The shadow defence secretary has asked David Lammy to say "when" he was "planning to tell the rest of us" about a foreign offender who was wrongly released from prison last week.

James Cartlidge pressed the deputy PM and justice secretary five times at DPMQs on whether there had been another "asylum seeker offender" that had been mistakenly released.

Lammy declined to answer, although he told Cartlidge to "get a grip".

Now it has been confirmed that a 24-year-old was released from HMP Wandsworth in error on 29 October, just five days after convicted paedophile Hadush Kebatu was mistakenly freed from HMP Chelmsford. 

Cartlidge has said: "David Lammy - Now that we know the answer to my question… Can you tell me when you knew and when you were planning to tell the rest of us?"

Lammy has since said he is "absolutely outraged and appalled by the mistaken release" and that the Metropolitan Police is leading "an urgent manhunt".