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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Millie Cooke

Keir Starmer to call time on ‘disgraceful’ shop theft ‘free-for-all’

Sir Keir Starmer will set out new plans to crack down on retail crime, promising to call time on the shop theft “free-for-all”.

Speaking on Monday, the prime minister will hit out at “disgraceful” attempts to “cheat the system” through high street shoplifting, saying the government has put an extra 3,000 neighbourhood police officers on the streets.

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