Labour says Rishi Sunak’s antisocial behaviour plan is a weaker version of its own policy – UK politics live

Shadow justice secretary says the government has stolen and watered down Labour policy ahead of a speech by the PM

Q: The Conservatives have “dropped the ball a little bit, to be honest”. He says laughing gas is the least of their problems. People are using much harder drugs. He has skimmed through the action plan document. Some of it is good. But punishments needs to be firmer. People probably won’t turn up for community sentences. And the government needs to tackle drugs at source.

Sunak agrees. Drugs are appalling, he says. They are a scourge. And there is a direct link between drugs and other crimes, like violence.

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