BRITAIN’S labour movement threw its weight today behind a “counter-revolution” to reverse the failing and scandal-hit sell-off of the probation service.

Under the Tories’ Transforming Rehabilitation programme all but the most serious offenders were hived off to be dealt with by private contractors.

Earlier this year Parliament’s justice select committee issued a damning report on the privatisation, saying it was “unconvinced that Transforming Rehabilitation can deliver an effective or viable probation service.”