Priti Patel urges people to report neighbours who flout Christmas bubble rules

The Home Secretary said she would inform the police if she saw people breaching coronavirus laws over Christmas

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Priti Patel has urged people to report neighbours who flout Christmas bubble rules - but only if they are having raves or house parties.

The Home Secretary said she would inform the police if she saw people breaching coronavirus laws over Christmas - and made clear that enforcement of the laws will not be scaled back.

"Any individual that saw any laws being broken would take that upon themselves," she told BBC Breakfast.

"If I saw somebody flouting coronavirus regulations and the laws, of course I would look to inform the police about that.

"The public are part of this … we do see the public and the police working together."

However, Ms Patel told Sky News that police should only become involved if there were "raves" going on.

"Their role is to enforce against the egregious breaches, the raves, the house parties, anything basically that is in breach of the rules that would effectively lead to the spread of the virus," she said.

Asked on LBC whether the police should be called if one extra person attended a Christmas gathering, she said: "No, I"m not going to go there Nick… I think (the public) have exercised great judgment throughout the year when it comes to following the regulations."

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