Government has 'lost a grip of our high streets', says shadow minister

Labour's shadow policing minister Alex Norris is asked if he supports legislation that would make assaulting a shop worker a separate criminal offence.

He says "yes" and that he has been "trying to introduce legislation to that effect for five-and-a-half years".

"The reality is in that five-and-a-half years the incidences of violence and abuse against retail workers have trebled," he says.

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