Shopkeepers need to step up to the plate and take some responsibility. They can quite easily put signs up on their doors: ‘No mask on, no entry, this is private property.’
That’s the first point we need to get across because this cannot all be laid on the shoulders of the police yet again.
The second point is it will be nigh-on impossible for enforcement because you won’t have a police officer on every shop door because there isn’t enough of us.
If a shopkeeper calls the police because someone hasn’t got a mask on, they haven’t got the power to detain them so that person can just walk away.
We’ll be driving around and around London looking for people who aren’t wearing masks, it’s absolutely absurd.