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Transport Secretary Grant Shapps said the Government planned to use the Police, Crime and Sentencing Bill to ensure Britons “can’t just go round and cause vandalism”.
He insisted destroying public property is unacceptable, adding the Government was always “on the side of the law and when necessary we will fix any loopholes in the law to make sure that’s always the case”.
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