Labour has activated emergency plans to combat prison overcrowding as fast-tracked charges and sentences for rioters continue to pile up. The plan, named Operation Early Dawn, will see defendants waiting for court appearances across the north of England shipped out to police cells – where they will not be summoned to magistrates’ courts until prison spaces open up again. The crackdown, fewer than two months into Sir Keir Starmer’s Government, will be imposed across Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire, Manchester, Merseyside, the north east and Yorkshire. Crown Prosecution Service figures put the tot…