The Labour leader spoke at Usdaw’s conference in Blackpool, where voters are due to go to the polls in a by-election later this week
Sir Keir Starmer has promised retail workers he will crack down on crime and reverse what he called a Tory “Shoplifter’s Charter” in a speech.
“And we will legislate to make sure assaulting and abusing shopworkers is a standalone criminal offence because you deserve to feel safe at work.” Sir Keir said: “Nobody in Britain should be in any doubt about the scale of the crimewave on our high streets at the moment – the epidemic levels of shoplifting and the persistent plague of antisocial behaviour.”
He told the conference: “I’m not here to tell you everything will be easy if Labour is elected. It won’t be. There’s no easy path out of the hole the Tories have dug for our country. Labour is hoping for victory in the Blackpool South by-election on Thursday, which was called after Conservative MP Scott Benton resigned in the wake of a lobbying scandal. Forecasts for local elections taking place across the country on the same day suggest the Conservatives could lose up to half of the council seats they are defending.
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