Rishi Sunak recalls seeing shoplifters in his mother’s pharmacy amid new criminal crackdown
Rishi Sunak on Wednesday described witnessing shoplifting up close in his mother’s pharmacy as he relented to a long-running campaign and agreed to criminalise assaults on store workers.
Assaulting a shop worker is to be made a separate criminal offence carrying up to six months’ imprisonment, the Prime Minister confirmed in the runup to an election this year, having previously ruled out
