Labour leader, Sir Keir Starmer, has vowed to crackdown on violence against shopworkers if he wins the general election.
He reiterated Labour’s promise from its manifesto to introduce a specific offence for assaults on store staff to a group of Morrisons employees at the supermarket’s Swindon branch.
Mr Starmer said: “It’s not just the shoplifting, it’s also the abuse and threats… This is such an important issue. We have to crackdown on its.
“We also need to reverse this idea that anything under £200 that people steal is not going to be actionable.”
Labour’s manifesto last week vowed to create a new specific offense for assaults on store staff to protect them from “threats and violence”, adding the party would “scrap the effective immunity for some shoplifting introduced by the Conservatives”.
The political party has also released its plans for British high streets – read more about it here.
