'Stop tool thieves wrecking our tradesmen’s livelihoods’

ROBERT Jenrick confronts a trader selling tools at a car boot sale in a video highlighting how tradesmen are “having their livelihoods wrecked" by thefts.

- BY MICHAEL KNOWLES Home Affairs Editor

The Shadow Justice Secretary said police and ministers should be “embarrassed that stolen tools are being sold across the country in plain sight".

He was allegedly sworn at and threatened as he clashed with traders selling tools with personal identification marks on them, leading to fears they had previously been stolen.

Mr Jenrick asked a trader: “This is just the contents of some bloke's van, isn’t it? Where is all this from?”