Britain must kick out overseas criminals or slash foreign aid until their countries take them back

Kick out overseas crims, or slash aid LAW-ABIDING Brits are sick of seeing vicious crooks walk away from prison less than halfway through their sentences. It is a disgrace that prison overcrowding has led to Labour’s open door policy for thousands of villains who will never serve their terms in full. We must kick out overseas criminals or slash foreign aid until their countries take them back Credit: Getty Successive governments have failed to cut numbers of overseas inmates Credit: Getty Andy Burnham has slammed the brakes on the scheme after the outrage over the potential early release of the two killers of PC Andrew Harper. But it is a scramble against the clock. Around 6,000 lags were due to go free from September 2 under the plan. Sign up for The Sun newsletter Thank you! Without that, prison bosses warn jails will start running out of space in November. So since every cell place counts, why are we still hosting more than 10,000 foreign prisoners? READ MORE FROM THE SUN SAYS It is insane that thousands who should be serving time in their own country’s jails are taking up scarce places in our own. Successive governments have failed to cut numbers of overseas inmates. The row over deporting grooming gang leader Shabir Ahmed to Pakistan shows how unsuccessful we have been. But there is a bargaining chip we could use. Two countries with large groups of their nationals in our prisons are India and Albania. Most read in The Sun The former receives nearly £25million in foreign aid and the latter got £4million in 2025. Neither should receive a penny in aid again until they take back their citizens from our crisis-hit jails. Regulate funerals ONE thing is clear from the trial of funeral home monster Robert Bush. The Wild West culture surrounding this business must end for good. Hundreds of mourning relatives had their lives ruined by the evil of one man. But the freedom he enjoyed to hoodwink victims under a cloak of secrecy while siphoning off their cash can and should be stopped immediately. The Government must step in and regulate the funeral business without delay. Bush had a parlour and chapel under the same roof. Such madness can’t go on. It gives twisted individuals a licence to act with impunity. It’s full-time, Gianni “A SHABBY, backroom, opaque deal.’’ We couldn’t agree more with Uefa’s assessment of Gianni Infantino’s shameful collapsed plan to sell the World Cup. With every day that passes the Fifa chief’s position gets weaker. It’s time to blow the final whistle… with no extra-time. Comment now