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Failing Grayling faces calls to quit after flagship probation privatisation scrapped
Chris Grayling
CHRIS GRAYLING is under mounting pressure to quit the Cabinet after colleagues axed one of his flagship outsourcing policies.
The bungling Tory, now Transport Secretary, part-privatised the probation service in 2014 when he led the justice ministry.
The move saw “lower-risk” offenders monitored by private companies while on parole.
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