LABOUR’S Shadow Justice Secretary has outlined plans for “clean-up squads” to tackle fly-tipping and accused the Prime Minister of stealing its ideas for cleaning up Britain.

Steve Reed told GB News: “The amount of dumped rubbish on streets has gone up by a third since they’ve been in power.

“There’s now 3,000 reports every single day, for goodness sake, in this country of rubbish dumped on our streets and nothing’s happening about it.

“Labour is proposing to set up clean-up squads so that those who make the mess will clear up the mess and people will understand that is just fairness.

“But it’s also a deterrent for other people who are tempted to get out on the streets and dump their rubbish rather than taking it to the dump themselves or organising for it to be picked up is simply not fair on families.

“They are living in communities that they deserve to feel proud of, to see them despoiled in this way by people who are completely anti-social and completely disrespectful of how everyone else in that community feels.”

In response to a question about the policy being similar to that Outlined by the Conservatives, during a discussion with Ellie Costello and Martin Daubney, he said: “What happened was I first announced this in December, and then three months later Rishi Sunak took those ideas and tried to claim that they were his ideas – they’re our ideas.

“They just took our ideas, but what he had done was he shrank it down. Labour proposes to do this across the entire country, what Rishi Sunak offered to do was just do it in a handful of areas, barely a dozen.

“The vast majority of the country would see no change whatsoever. Now what is the point of pointing to a problem that really damages communities like this, and then propose that you to do nothing for most of the country?”

He added: “That’s what the Conservatives are doing. Labour’s plans would affect the whole country and the enforcement will be done by the 13,000 additional police officers that we will provide so that we can rebuild neighbourhood policing in every single community

“People want a visible, uniformed, reassuring presence that you can go to to get these crimes investigated and prosecuted and then real consequences for those who are responsible for doing it.

“Now the Conservatives clearly aren’t too bothered about robbery, otherwise it wouldn’t have nicked my policies, but it’s a shame they shrink them down so most of the country will see nothing.”