Activists carry out 'shoplift' campaign

AN activist group has said it carried out a mass shoplifting campaign of “liberating boxes of food” from supermarkets to food banks.

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Take Back Power said supporters in London, Manchester, Exeter and Truro “took back food and necessities from supermarkets and redistributed them to local food banks” on Saturday.

The group said “what's legal isn’t necessarily an indication of what's moral or right’, and it was “necessary for ordinary people to be stepping into action given the scale of crisis our country faces”.

Take Back Power, which describes itself as a nonviolent civil resistance group, said activists entered supermarkets and began putting food into boxes emblazoned with “these things are going to those that need them”.